taken from This Big City.
With transportation causing most of the world's negative environmental impacts, like green house gases and high oil consumption, why don't we all move into cities?
The population of the United States is roughly 307 million, and the population of NYC is 8.17 million. This means that if everyone in the united states lived in a New York City sized city, we would only need 37 cities to house the USA. We could have super fast trains taking travelers to and from those 37 cities, no cars would be needed. All the funding that went toward highways and roads would go towards buses, trains, and subways. We could easily fund an immaculately clean, efficient, and pleasant subway system.
Our energy consumption would plummet, access to cultural institutions would skyrocket, and our lands might return to a natural order.
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