Grid layouts are Communism. We gotta have half a dozen single family developments inside of the base with at least two golf courses. That's how we preserve The American Way: Highly stratified housing and real estate scams.

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[–] culpritus@hexbear.net 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

suburban sprawl planning was originally a cold war "civil defense" response

In 1945, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists began advocating for "dispersal," or "defense through decentralization" as the only realistic defense against nuclear weapons, and the federal government realized this was an important strategic move. Most city planners agreed, and America adopted a completely new way of life, one that was different from anything that had come before, by directing all new construction "away from congested central areas to their outer fringes and suburbs in low-density continuous development," and "the prevention of the metropolitan core's further spread by directing new construction into small, widely spaced satellite towns."

https://www.treehugger.com/why-sprawl-was-caused-nuclear-arms-race-and-why-matters-more-ever-today-4854403

posadist-nuke dumpster-fire

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Gotta be honest here I'm not entirely convinced this was the actual reason and not just something that sounded good

[–] woodenghost@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago

Yes, I think the actual reason was that it delayed the crisis of overproduction by being hugely wasteful and inefficient. "Build houses and fill them with stuff" and all that.