Why So Many Suburbs Look the Same

Government regulations had a lot to do with the design of the neighborhoods we live in today. The judgements of the Federal Housing Administration decades ago shape the way we live now, particularly how dependent we are on automobiles. Why bother with mass transit when everyone already had to have a car just to move to that suburb in the first place? -via Digg

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It felt like it ended kinda suddenly with the African American neighborhood and really didn't go into the impacts of this kind of design on minority families. I'm not sure the rate of car ownership in African American families in the 1950s-60s but I suspect it was lower making suburbs, even if some were designed for African American families, predominately white.

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Is this supposed to be funny? I am not comfortable with 'robots' being our slaves. I don't know why but it just seems wrong to make 'machines' do things we can easily do on our own. The only things I can find acceptable for people is when humans are disabled and need artificial intelligent help so they can survive.

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