Sprawl....what does it mean to you? Too (Houston, Dallas: townhouse, school)

[N. Olikee]

Posted this in the Austin Forum and wondered about my Native and not so native Houstonians....

Is it upwards.....or outwards. Mostly, by those who have built upwards, they think it is outwards.

But, I think it is both ways. There's a LOT of "sprawl" in NYC...upwards. Very unattractive to me. I think NYC is a very ugly city, but Chicago is quite nice. Doesn't Chicago have sprawl both upwards AND outwards.....hmmm?

I think Houston and Dallas get a bad "rap" for outward "sprawl" when compared to other cities.

[Lost_In_Translation]

Although I don't think every solution to limited space and transportation is a bigger or newer freeway, its nice to have the choice to live out and commute or live in and be able to afford it.

[TimBomb]

dude put on NatGeo or animalPlanet. that'll blow your mind for a while

[N. Olikee]

Originally Posted by TimBomb

dude put on NatGeo or animalPlanet. that'll blow your mind for a while

Ok Tim,

I think I said you needed your own comedy show......not so much now!

[TimBomb]

Originally Posted by N. Olikee

Ok Tim,

I think I said you needed your own comedy show......not so much now!

you don't have cable huh

[N. Olikee]

Originally Posted by TimBomb

you don't have cable huh

I do too! Clue me in....I think you are the Bomb....tim.

[David Dollar]

Outward sprawl makes things more difficult to get to and promotes big box stores, chains, and a void of interesting things to do. However, upward sprawl creates population denstiy which leads to a concentration of people, places, and small businesses which are able to survive.

[texas7]

Anything "outside the loop" is sprawl.

[tebor79]

I hate outward sprawl and all that participate in it.
It should be outlawed, and the developers that aide it, tried and imprisoned.

but then again I have some worthless acreage 3 hours northeast of Houston that I will sell for millions in 20 years for some morons that don't want their kids to go to school with minorities and is willing to drive 4 hours to work so that they can have a house that looks exactly like every other house in his hood and they can eat Chillis or TGIF for dinner.BARF

[Lost_In_Translation]

Originally Posted by tebor79

I hate outward sprawl and all that participate in it.
It should be outlawed, and the developers that aide it, tried and imprisoned.

but then again I have some worthless acreage 3 hours northeast of Houston that I will sell for millions in 20 years for some morons that don't want their kids to go to school with minorities and is willing to drive 4 hours to work so that they can have a house that looks exactly like every other house in his hood and they can eat Chillis or TGIF for dinner.BARF

Aren't you a charming fellow.

We should all be locked in towers of doom a square mile around the city center then should we?

Why do people seem to forget that before NYC built upward, it sprawled outward at an equal pace. At some point, commutes overwhelm people's desire to move outward and you start seeing types of densifying. Even in Houston, king of city sprawl, the townhouse developments you see going up are evidence that even Houstonians are tiring of moving farther and farther out from the city center and alot of people moving to the far extents are not the ones commuting to the center.