Suburbs: infrastructure, amenities, and local culture

Interesting about coal. It's only the people well over 65 that will remember how bad things were in cities before the Clean Air Act 1956 started having an impact. I still remember visiting Manchester in the early 60s when I was about 5?, and there was a sick yellow smog everywhere. And the smell!

Turn it into an eatery, franchise it in lesbo-neigborhoods.

it was housing for the homeless, dog

Bad air quality outdoors, worse indoors; crowding; sometimes not yet completed water/sewer/etc. infrastructure. Lots of cholera and typhoid until ~1900, lots of tuberculosis until after WW2, lots of ticks and bedbugs. Visible prostitution. Teens working for wages (rather than on the family farm).

C'mon Dan, we wouldn't want there to be tall buildings in NYC. Can you imagine?

An unregulated Industrial Revolution left cities and states with environmental remediation needs that we still haven’t addressed

A golf course is an uninspired idea for this location. Northeastern Ohio already has numerous golf courses/driving ranges. There’s even a bar near me with a putt-putt course inside. Enough with the golf already.

It's understandable, if it's stlll being used as a residence. I suppose if it was used as a tourist attraction or as a full-time shrine to Robin, it would have been different, but not if it's a place where regular, private people live.

Surrey will always be the suburb in the world's eyes. However, Surrey could make a real push to be a larger local cultural hub for the city. The cool and fun place to hang out for locals. But that is difficult and achievable but Doug is looking for lofty and impossible.

What are they afraid of losing? Their views of terraced houses? Also, the picture they've included is clearly not close to ten stories high.

Expect environment to be back up when towns start burning again.