suburbs become drains on cities because miles upon miles of infrastructure slowly rots until the maintenance costs overwhelm any positive economic activity. how do you pay for the rot? by developing more sprawl. eventually the scam runs out and instead of developing more, you just let it decay.
this is just a gut feeling but it seems like all these huge sites that rely on algorithmic moderation to handle the glut of user-generated content have a similar problem
question: what will change that?
is it going back to sharing everything as text files so they can be hosted all over the place?
we need walkable, mixed-used information built at a human scale
