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

The reform agenda is not mysterious:
• Tax land value, not buildings or labor
• Build social housing at permanent scale
• Zone for density and mixed use
• Invest in transit (which creates affordable land)
• Stop treating rising home prices as prosperity indicators

Knowledge is not the obstacle. Power is.

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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