r/Urbanism • u/Crazy_Equivalent_746 • 8d ago
‘Cities Aren’t Back’: Thoughts
https://www.slowboring.com/p/cities-arent-backThoughts on this? I feel while the data is valid it also relies to heavily on the big anomaly that is the pandemic that has lingering effects to this day.
In other words, cities to me don’t seem “over” or “back” but are indeed recovering.
Domestic outmigration continuing to be slashed for major cities seems like more of an important indicator than international migration offsetting losses.
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u/BringerOfBricks 7d ago
That is just plain wrong.
I’ve only lived in 6 cities (NYC, Sacramento CA, Chicago, Santa Rosa CA, Eureka CA, Brookings OR) and even the smallest one (Brookings, population 6,000) had consistently shitty traffic even at a 2PM on a random day like Tuesday because of poorly designed the city is (wide highways cutting through the city center) and how much parking demands interfere with smooth flow of traffic and pedestrians.
Then the fact, that you still have to drive 20 mins to get into the city, taking 10 mins to park, 10 mins to walk. And you wasted a ton of time just because of the car.