15-minute neighborhoods with bike lanes are exactly the kinds of places good for raising kids in.

This is what the policy wonk idealists say, but the undeniable evidence going back hundreds of years is that dense cities are fertility shredders.

phainopepla2 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

In theory. In practice, dense urban neighborhoods have very low birthrates, and always have. Cities are population sinks

cyberax 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

No, they're not. They are places where cities go to die.

Walk in Tokyo and try to find children there.

	▲	BigTTYGothGF an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> Walk in Tokyo and try to find children there There might a few more things going on there than just density, perhaps operating on a national level.
	▲	trgn 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		there's a new urbanist community, walkable, bikelanes, etc.. in my part of the midwest and it's teeming with children.