You Can Take It With You
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You Can Take It With You
I doubt that I would be in the suburbs if it weren’t for the antiurban public policy trifecta of the Massachusetts Turnpike, the home mortgage interest deduction, and the problems of urban schools.
Edward Glaeser • Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier
THE PARLIAMENT that passed the Town and Country Planning Act of 1947 was alive to the pressing need, in bomb-cratered Britain, for bricks and mortar. If the post-war governments, Labour and Tory, had a consistent north star, it was building homes. Winston Churchill, returned to office in 1951, listed his priorities as “houses, red meat and not bein
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Again, I want to be very clear that these neighborhoods are not some hell on earth, and anyone from the rest of world would be smitten to have the chance to live in them. As I wrote above, if an average African, Asian, or Latin American asked my advice I would tell them to move there. It would be downright weird of me to tell them otherwise, given ... See more