Why Car-Dependent Suburbs Are Subsidized
Not Just Bikes · Explainer · YouTube title: Suburbia is Subsidized: Here's the Math [ST07]
Why it's here
The go-to link in urban planning threads for the claim that suburban infrastructure costs more per resident than it pays back.
What it covers
Not Just Bikes explains, using Urban3's property-tax analysis, why car-dependent suburbs generate less tax revenue than they cost to maintain, so dense urban cores effectively subsidize them. It is part of a Strong Towns series.