Chapter 6 Review: Specific Enough To Disagree With

Cities that expand outward rather than upward generate a particular set of problems. sprawl lengthens journeys, which raises transport and increases the road space each household consumes. The resulting is not solved by building more roads, since new capacity fills within a few years. Outward growth also pushes such as clinics, libraries and parks further from the households that rely on them most, which strains cohesion in exactly the neighbourhoods where it is already weakest. Households without reliable are doubly disadvantaged, because services that move online become unreachable for them — the divide is a geographic problem as much as an economic one. The workforce affected too: long commutes are strongly associated with a lifestyle, and the health costs of that fall on provision rather than on the employers whose location decisions created them.