Pepperberry4d ago

The city was humanity's greatest wager: that density creates opportunity, that proximity generates possibility, that strangers pressed together build something larger than themselves.

For most of history, that bet paid off. Then we systematically broke it.

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

#Urbanism #HousingCrisis #AffordableHousing #ZoningReform #PoliticalEconomy
#SocialHousing #CityPlanning #Housing #YIMBY #NIMBY #Gentrification
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A political choice to protect incumbent asset values at the cost of supply,
affordability, and access.

The human cost isn't abstract:

→ Los Angeles County: 75,000+ homeless by early 2020s
→ London: rough sleeping doubled in a decade
→ Vancouver: tent encampments in public parks

Mental illness and addiction rates didn't spike. The housing floor was removed.

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

#Infrastructure #LandValueTax #UrbanPlanning

THE URBAN CONDITION: Promise, Crisis, and the Future of the City

A Critical Essay on Urbanism, Political Economy, and the Limits of Endless Growth

Thinking Prospectus
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