Charles Marohn
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Civil engineer and land use planner, founder and president of Strong Towns, author of Escaping the Housing Trap. Argues that the American pattern of…
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Updated 2017-06-12 -
9 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Cities have only ever built wealth incrementally, by many small improvements over a long time, not by big projects. (opens korrents.com)
“Yet, incremental investment is how cities have always built wealth.”
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A neighbourhood redevelops itself when rising land values meet permission to build more intensely, and it stagnates when either half is missing. (opens korrents.com)
“It is incrementally rising land values, combined with the ability to redevelop to something more intense, that naturally prompts the redevelopment of property in decline.”
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The break in how cities are built is that places used to be improved continuously and are now built once, at scale, to a finished state. (opens korrents.com)
“Pre-Depression development was incremental on a continuum of improvement while post-War development is built at a large scale to a finished state.”
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Cities have only ever built wealth incrementally, by many small improvements over a long time, not by big projects. (opens korrents.com)