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		closeparen on Jan 16, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Automakers Invented the Crime of “Jaywalking” Copenhagen isn’t McMansions on quarter acre lots, while most Americans panic at the suggestion of any density level higher than that. Permission to play in the street won’t fix low suburban density or the low effective density of high rise neighborhoods that are mostly vacant investment properties.

lmm on Jan 16, 2018 [–]

> Permission to play in the street won’t fix low suburban density

It can help, if it means parents feel less need for private gardens.

devdas on Jan 17, 2018 | [–]

Or apartment blocks with their own enclosed playgrounds.

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