Correct, the references to USA and USSR concerned efforts to draw growth to stagnant cities, not efforts to strangle it in busy ones
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Specifically in reference to "lure skilled workers and business to move to our fantastic Northern cities." Why isn't housing cost an issue?
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Replying to @donlocke77 @JonnElledge
Yeah, I live here, and I take issue with the "to great success" idea. I don't know who's koolaid you're drinking, but America is *hurting*
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And to be sure, the US policy isn't to strangle NYC or Silicon Valley, but (as w USSR) to lure businesses into dying cities.
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Replying to @donlocke77 @380kmh
Also; federalism and a history in which economic and policy power are dispersed to different cities. Hard to retrofit that
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Replying to @JonnElledge @donlocke77
Exactly--and increasing stagnation in the USA has gone hand-in-hand with diminished federalism and increased central power
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Easy to say from across the pond
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