Suburban Sprawl

A six minute documentary about suburban sprawl in Atlanta, GA and its effect on traffic, as well as a few people's take on life in the suburbs.

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News & Politics

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[SilentServiceCode]

Why did you not credit your use of Placebo - Pure Morning at the end of the video?

[tuxedomask5432]

Sorry about that, the CD my sister made for me had it Mis-labeled as the Butthole Surfers LOL, I now know its Placebo.

[GOPATS3000]

Atlanta is a failed city and will never sustain itself. Its an edge city. The core is joke. I couldn't stand it when I was there. It should be demolished rebuilt. You could say that for the majority of American cities though.

[xman4un]

Actually, you're quite wrong although of course metropolitan areas would prefer to keep it's wealthy residents. However, many of suburban sprawl's worst critics are suburanites themselves! Suburban sprawl is very much responsible for the economic crisis were currently in created from the real-estate bubble and consequently the failure of the investment sector. It's called overspeculation and greed you schmuck!

[JackRussellTerrier2]

Definition erroneous... should include "low density development, usually within a metro or micropolitan area whc typically affiliates w/ th centrl city... chrctrzd by wasted spaces (drvwys reaching bhnd houses which r far fr street w/ bldng codes prvntng front & vertical addtns et al)... consists of such rsdntl dvlpmnt as ranch houses, ramblers, patio homes + low-rise office campuses, big box rtl, other 1 level dvlpmnt + huge paved areas..."

BTW most of "Atlanta" is actually outside Atlanta

[rickster348]

people are easier to control when they're centralized. We need to get people back in the cities, even if they have to live on top of each other.

[partsmet]

Very suburban city. Unfortunate.

[TheEMotionPictures]

I love how you addressed the homogeneity of Suburban Sprawl. Find my complete 82 min. documentary film on Net Flix.

Best,

David M. Edwards

[AthenaOnFire]

Hi, please watch my video on Urban Sprawl :)

[realsamwise]

Few miles outside Guelph Ontario

[landongendur]

What city are you in?

[realsamwise]

During the day if I wanted to I could take a nap in the road in front of my house because there are no cars. I can look out the window and see nothing but my apple tree. I could yell and nobody would hear me. My commute to work is less then 20 mins. Find a city where you can say that.

[realsamwise]

I guess where I am perplexed is why anyone who says they live in a suburb would first, dislike it there and second stay there if they felt that way. I have lived in some sub divisions that had overgrown become too full of teens and cars and such. I just moved.

[realsamwise]

Well, nothing is perfect so sure nothing suits me. but as far as housing goes, living in asuburb 20 minutes outside of a small city is pretty close. In the end it is not I that has an issue with my living arrangements or those of others. New Urban-ism is not in the end a bad idea for changing cities it sounds better than most cities are now. Ironically, in a roundabout way less obnoxious cities could indirectly reduce demand for suburbs by giving people one less reason to want to live there.