this is a pretty strawman version of YIMBYism in practice
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I've been meaning to read this!
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Thanks very much!
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...many early 20th C technologies expanded effective land: intra-city rail, steel construction, elevators, air-conditioning, AC power. In the 21st C all we have is telecommuting and face-swap apps.https://www.theurbanist.org/2017/10/17/affordable-housing-platform-seattle/ …
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Yes. The idea of cities as poor undesirable places was an aberration of post-war dynamics of suburbanization. People act like the spike in urban land prices and economic share of GDP is unusual, but the truth is for most of human history it has been like this
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Or I could just revisit the first three weeks of my intro to the cities class for froshies. But I always like book recs.
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