# How the suburbs are subsidized

By [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com) · 2022-11-09

city-finances, municipal-finances, not-just-bikes, planning, return-on-investment, suburbia, urban-visuals, urban3, urbanism

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https://youtu.be/7Nw6qyyrTeI

[This](https://youtu.be/7Nw6qyyrTeI) is an excellent video that I would encourage all of you to watch. It provides a visual look at city finances and explains how car-dependent suburbs are usually heavily subsidized by productive urban places. These are the kinds of analyses that all cities should be doing and, among many other things, I think it could go a long way to positively influencing how we plan our cities. Want to keep densities low and new development to a minimum in your community? Well then you should expect to see a commensurate increase in property taxes. If that doesn't make sense to you right now, it will once you watch the video.

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*Originally published on [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com/how-the-suburbs-are-subsidized)*