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My take on it is that there aren't enough desirable cities available to employ and house all the people who want to live in them. This can be addressed by eith
by elihu 8y ago
My take on it is that there aren't enough desirable cities available to employ and house all the people who want to live in them. This can be addressed by either increasing the capacity of those cities, by making existing undesirable cities more desirable, or just creating new desirable cities where no city currently exists.
- graeme 8y agoSpot on. I think zoning is a big part of it. It would be illegal to build most of the world’s desirable cities now. Local zoning requires less mixed use, wider streets, more mandatory parking, etc My dense, desirable neighbourhood in montreal couldn’t be build elsewhere in north america. But itnisn’t a safety ir code thing. The local zoning is actually reasonable: it’s just the laws are more anti-urbanist elsewhere.
- bobthepanda 8y agoCreating new cities out of scratch rarely works. Cities need a reason to exist, and newly planned cities tend to fall apart from a lack of jobs. Example: https://www.citylab.com/life/2018/06/sleepy-in-songdo-koreas-smartest-city/561374/ https://www.citylab.com/life/2018/06/sleepy-in-songdo-koreas...