#and they really need that drainage space and modern landscape architecture has come a long way since concrete channels and burying creeks

[myothertardisisonthemun]

A suburb doesn't need to look like the wastelands they build in America. A suburb can look like this:

Or like this

Both of these are from Syndey, Australia, from the inner west, and mid northwest. The first probably began mid to late 19th C, the latter from the 80s.

Both have decent provision of busses, and small shops and parks are like 10 minutes away, but many people still prefer to drive, because it's hilly and cars have aircon. But we don't really do the parking absolutely everywhere thing the USA does, you're expected to walk for a bit.

But more to the point, look at the urban canopy. You get birds of all kinds, possums, frogs, lizards, and all sorts of little guys living near the people.

Sadly, most of the new development looks like this:

And this is a relativity good patch (these are all from my own photos). Some of these trees could get a decent size, but the lack of space for gardens, and hight of the houses makes achieving a propper urban canopy difficult.

A mix with more medium density and more semi-private greenspace would be more sensible. These suburbs have neither the advantages of density, or that of older leafy suburbs. But they can be marketed as detached houses.

The Western Sydney urban heat island has been the hottest place on earth a few times.

So many people talking about the terrible environmental impacts of suburban sprawl, but I can't find anybody proposing an actionable improvement...

[cmeckwork]

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