The Suburban Wasteland: How the ‘Burbs Bankrupt Us
Channel: Eco Gecko
Date: 2019-04-20

The Suburban Wasteland is a new series which explores the social, economic, and political consequences of suburbanization in the United States. Deteriorating health, political radicalization, social isolation, ecological destruction, and enormous financial waste can all be linked to a development pattern previously unheard of in the whole of human history, and here, we explore why that is. 

In this first video, we explore how the suburban experiment puts enormous financial pressure on its residents and governments, and just might be building up into a fiscal time bomb for the entire nation. 

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Some sources referenced in this video:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1078087407309282

http://www.newgeography.com/content/004349-from-jurisdictional-functional-analysis-urban-cores-suburbs

http://www.autolife.umd.umich.edu/

https://lsecities.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/NCE-Sprawl-Subsidy-Report-021.pdf

https://www.amazon.com/Suburban-Nation-Sprawl-Decline-American/dp/0865477507

https://www.strongtowns.org/

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/10/evanston-illinois-what-works-213282