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The End of the American City

Here are a couple of graphics that might be interesting for those of you who have not seen them before.

To give a sense of how much urban growth has been stunted compared to previous trends, before the downzoning, Manhattan had 7 Congressional districts. Aspirational poor workers and families who need social support use cities, and we decided - literally made a policy choice to stand athwart history yelling “Stop”- that we weren’t going to have them any more. Deep down in the bowels of the emergent political processes that made cities illegal, I believe that the fact that they hold value for the poor is the key reason for their demise.

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