The core engine of cities: agglomeration. Dense urban environments generate
measurable productivity gains — thick labor markets, knowledge spillovers,
serendipitous cross-pollination between workers, fields, & ideas.

Jane Jacobs called this before economists could model it.

But agglomeration wealth doesn't distribute automatically. Under the wrong institutional conditions, it gets captured almost entirely by landowners — who created none of it

https://thinkingprospectus.substack.com/p/the-urban-condition-promise-crisis

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