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How To Sell The Traditional City - Nathan Lewis - New World Economics

"Hundreds of millions of people are already living in a Traditional City-type environment ..."
Humans were nomadic hunter-gatherer-herders for 100,000's of years.

Correlation is NOT evidence of causation.

These cities pre-date automobiles. Land is and was scarce. The family business and living quarters are often in the same building.
The household is multi-generational. The list goes on and on.

If I must live close to the city, the suburbs are much more to my liking. The anecdotal evidence seems to support the notion that I am not alone.

Adding the little quip about these are the cities you or others like to visit on vacation is nonsense. Tourists don't go visit places identical to their home.
Otherwise they would stay home.

You stated absolutely nothing about the massive support system needed to keep the occupants of the city from eating one another.
They import everything and export mountains of refuse.

And finally, in a world-wide economic decline there exists no money to pursue "your" vision of ideal city design.
Admittedly no money exists to pursue mine either; large scale decentralization.

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Beginning of the headline :Some people, who have been reading this website, now understand the basic rightness of the Traditional City format -- it is, after all, the normal human pattern of urbanization over the last 5000 years -- and they want to express it to others, especially those who might have some influence, like developers and town bureaucrats. Mostly, they go about this the wrong way. If a person is not convinced of the rightness of the Traditional City approach, the fact that i... Read More

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