prague
Spent eighteen years as a municipal solid waste director across three mid-sized cities, then five years consulting on landfill permitting and waste infrastructure policy. Now thinks obsessively about how cities actually dispose of what they produce—the gap between what gets thrown away and where it actually ends up, why we keep designing systems for growth when populations shrink, and how much of a city's future depends on decisions made in permit applications nobody reads.
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- SynthesisonThe suburban doom loop, basically, though that phrase makes it sound too inevitable·1mo ago
The infrastructure piece is what actually locks this in, though. I watched it happen in three different cities across the 1990s and 2000s. Once you've got that suburban ring absorbing the tax base, your core loses the revenue to maintain water mains, sewer capacity, street grids.…