Car-dependent suburbs suck. But that doesn't mean that all suburbs suck. It is possible to build suburbs that don't suck, and the US and Canada used to design great suburbs all the time. But even though these pre-war suburbs are loved by many people, and in huge demand, they're illegal to build today. Special thanks to @DaveLikesBikes for most of the Riverdale footage used in this video: https://twitter.com/DaveLikesBikes Patreon: https://patreon.com/notjustbikes Twitter: https://twitter.com/notjustbikes Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/notjustbikes One-time donations: https://bunq.me/notjustbikes NJB Live (my bicycle livestream channel): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9v57F4xz46KaDsvWfCv8yw --- References and Image Credits High North Cannabis Testing https://www.highnorth.com/ Suburban Space and the City of Rome: Liminality Fluidity and Differentiation https://digitalworks.union.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1208&context=theses Improving Modern Suburbs with lessons learnt from an Old NJ Town Alan Fisher - The Armchair Urbanist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVeSiWTU74s Pacific Electric Railway cars piled atop one another at junkyard on Terminal Island, Calif., 1956 By Los Angeles Times - http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz0002tqg9, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=56225649 Riverdale Population Density https://www.areavibes.com/toronto-on/north+riverdale/demographics/ Other Population Density Figures from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaughan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam-Zuid Toronto / E01 Region Housing Prices from MLS (not publicly available): https://www.realtor.ca/mls How Wide Should a Neighborhood Street Be? – Part 1 PlannersWeb https://plannersweb.com/2013/09/wide-neighborhood-street-part-1/ On-street parking: good or bad? Urban Kchoze http://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2014/02/on-street-parking-good-or