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Car-dependent suburbs suck. But that doesn't mean that all suburbs suck. It is possible to build suburbs that don't suck, and the US and Canada used to design great suburbs all the time. But even though these pre-war suburbs are loved by many people, and in huge demand, they're illegal to build today.

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References and Image Credits

High North Cannabis Testing
https://www.highnorth.com/

Suburban Space and the City of Rome: Liminality Fluidity and Differentiation
https://digitalworks.union.edu/cgi/vi...

Improving Modern Suburbs with lessons learnt from an Old NJ Town
Alan Fisher - The Armchair Urbanist
   • A Car-Free Neighborhood in an Old New...  

Pacific Electric Railway cars piled atop one another at junkyard on Terminal Island, Calif., 1956
By Los Angeles Times - http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/view..., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

Riverdale Population Density
https://www.areavibes.com/toronto-on/...

Other Population Density Figures from:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaughan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterd...

Toronto / E01 Region Housing Prices from MLS (not publicly available):
https://www.realtor.ca/mls

How Wide Should a Neighborhood Street Be? – Part 1
PlannersWeb
https://plannersweb.com/2013/09/wide-...

On-street parking: good or bad?
Urban Kchoze
http://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2014/...

NACTO Urban Street Design Guide
Lane Width
https://nacto.org/publication/urban-s...

London, Ontario Zoning Map
https://london.ca/business-developmen...

What If We Rated Schools by Walkability?
https://usa.streetsblog.org/2014/01/0...

Highschool Walkscore
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL KNOWLEDGE IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHILDREN
Journal of Environmental Psychology
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

Do Minimum-Lot-Size Regulations Limit Housing Supply in Texas?
https://www.mercatus.org/system/files...

Minimum-Lot-Size Regulations Mean Less Housing
https://www.forbes.com/sites/adammill...

Toronto’s two front doors issue pits neighbourhood character against renters’ dignity, expert says
Toronto Star
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2019...

Setbacks, Suburbs and the American Front Lawn
https://oldurbanist.blogspot.com/2011...

Parking demand and zoning requirements for suburban multifamily housing
https://kingcounty.gov/~/media/depts/...

Scottsdale, AZ Zoning
https://library.municode.com/az/scott...

Tustin, CA Zoning
https://library.municode.com/ca/tusti...

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Chapters

0:00 Intro
0:05 Car-dependent suburbs suck
1:17 Suburbs are not the problem
2:15 Suburbs that don't suck are possible
3:20 Introduction to "Streetcar Suburbs"
4:05 About Riverdale
4:24 Why Riverdale is great
5:17 Walkability & schools of Riverdale
6:05 Shopping & Groceries
7:24 Storing your ugly metal boxes
7:47 Population density
8:24 High demand & housing prices
9:46 You can't build it: streets
11:07 You can't build it: zoning
11:46 You can't build it: schools
12:20 You can't build it: housing
13:00 You can't build it: lots & setbacks
14:23 You can't build it: parking
14:40 Conclusion & summary
16:16 Patreon shout-out
16:28 Outro

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