Our Unpleasant Privatized Reality
When the public sector leads, vacant space becomes an embarrassment instead of an immediate fiscal crisis. The human need to fill the space, at whatever cost, is not conducive to good decision-making. Worst of all, putting all the public improvements into a finished state before any private investment has occurred merely ensures that the city will
... See moreCharles L. Marohn • Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity
Instead of empowering communities that most suffered under urban renewal, the local-review process has again privileged wealthier people who routinely block new projects, and many of the projects that do get built are in poorer areas.
Jerusalem Demas • Community Input Is Bad, Actually
... See more“If you’re talking about universal health care, that’s totally utopian, but immortality is totally feasible. It’s a really weird double standard that tech bros and billionaires and Saudi princes get to dream up cities in the desert or like this new plan for a utopian city in Solano County in Northern California, but the rest of us are just going to
Some version of this condition exists in most American cities. In downtown Chicago, curbside parking costs one-thirteenth as much as off-street parking.40 The outcome of this market inefficiency is not just congestion and all its attendant woes—pollution, time wasted, slow emergency response—but also reduced revenue to area businesses. This counter
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