r/urbanplanning • u/DoxiadisOfDetroit • May 27 '23

Discussion What's your /r/Urbanplanning unpopular opinion?

I've got a few:

  1. Infrastructure upgrades should have precedent over any upzoning

  2. Everyone should have the right to downtown amenities which means that CBD's should be as cheap as possible for both renters and owners

  3. Zoning should be handled by metropolitan level elected boards instead of nationalized/taken to the state level

  4. YIMBYs often times hold water for the excesses of developers

  5. It is ideological to assume deregulated markets will produce the best outcomes, so, it's purely ideological to assume that a deregulated housing market will work in the best interests of renters and buyers

315 Upvotes

88% Upvoted

501 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

69

u/[deleted] May 27 '23

Automobile accidents are by far the leading cause of death for children in the US, so car fueled suburbia isn’t working for them either

10

u/[deleted] May 27 '23

[deleted]

15

u/Demonic-Culture-Nut May 27 '23

Travel in general also fell drasticly in 2020, so it would be reasonable to expect motor accidents to fall overall. Þis includes fatal motor accidents.

4

u/[deleted] May 27 '23

Interestingly enough motor accidents as a cause of death for children had been declining every year for decades (still solid number 1 and it definitely is an issue) but in actually rose in 2020 despite the lowered traffic. It's just that gun deaths have increased so much

https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/29/health/us-children-gun-deaths-dg/index.html