Mastodawn

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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pepperberry

What works — we actually know:

→ Vienna: 60% of residents in publicly subsidized, well-managed housing.
Still working after 100 years.
→ Tokyo: central government land use authority + liberal upzoning. Relatively
affordable by global city standards.
→ Minneapolis: abolished single-family zoning citywide (2018). Supply rose.

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

#SocialHousing #CityPlanning #Housing #YIMBY

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

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

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