Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity
Among the many challenges in a capitalist society, it’s hard to imagine a way to profit from a car-free future. Governments don’t profit from providing public transportation to citizens. It’s a service, a reflection of our commitment to the social good. Private transportation — cars — are a different animal: hundreds of industries profit from it, f... See more
Medium • There Are No Cars in Wakanda
Fixing retail with land value capture
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With auto-based infrastructure needing dramatically more money than is currently available just to maintain what we’ve already built, urban transportation advocates are forced to support lots of additional revenue for roads to get tepid support for walking, biking and transit funding.
Charles Marohn • A World Class Transportation System: Transportation Finance for a New Economy
In the automobile era, the risk taking is reversed. For all but the most local of transportation improvements, governments front the investment capital and take the risk. Governments gamble that the growth will happen and that, if it does, it will hold its value over time – it will generate enough wealth long term – so as to enable the system to be
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