All I can think is, “What is the incentive structure in Holland?”https://twitter.com/marklanebiz/status/1064960616824274949 …
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Comparative book looking at land use in Amsterdam, London and New York. https://www.amazon.com/Just-City-Susan-S-Fainstein-ebook/dp/B0055O1DUM …
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The Dutch have a fundamentally different cultural relationship with land than Americans do. They have spent hundreds of years, collectively and collaboratively working with the sea, dredging land from it, or channeling water through lands.
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Any type of new construction on greenfield land in Amsterdam requires drainage, which is infeasible for individual private developers so the govt is always involved. Then private developers can only leasehold land from the govt, not gain full ownership outright.pic.twitter.com/DjV4k6d0IC
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That relationship between water, drainage, infrastructure and land ownership goes centuries back.pic.twitter.com/7anQPffIg8
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The American system is premised on an abundance of land, and the balance of rights, governance and land rents tilts toward the edges, which makes it hard to reach consensus and then finance any kind of long term major land use/infrastructure changes.
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Oooh, book recommendations!
Kim-Mai and Austen, I think you'd both tremendously enjoy 'The Island at the Center of the World' on how early Dutch influence shaped America by importing proto-Enlightenment values through New Amsterdam (aka NYC): https://www.amazon.com/Island-Center-World-Manhattan-Forgotten/dp/1400078679/ … #goodread1 reply 1 retweet 1 like
(same author as the second book I screenshotted). He also wrote a book on Amsterdam itself.
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Ah I didn’t realize your screenshots were from his Amsterdam book! The New York one is so good – it’s one I was and have gifted many times.
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