Distilled Jacobs thread on the conflict between efficiency and development:
A precondition for dev is the possibility of changing (maybe dramatically) one's own work and place in society during one's working life
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Cities make it possible for small, fragmentary, specialized, weak, or duplicated enterprises to operate even with considerable inefficiency
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...because a city's market is concentrated--it can buy more; more can be sold there
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