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My first job was at Enron and yet Chicago is the most financially irresponsible organization I’ve ever seen. Anyone who buys this debt deserves to be zeroed out in the inevitable restructuring. Underfunded pensions, pension holidays, monetized 75 years of parking rev & 99 years of toll road & garage rev, securitized sales tax revs, scoop and toss... See more
On affordable housing
% Derisible • Theses for 2020
A skyscraper is a vertically cantilevered beam.
Matthew Frederick • 101 Things I Learned® in Engineering School
America’s dysfunctions are not obstacles for the rich. Though New York City has barely been able to extend its system of mass transit, real estate developers have been able to build skinny high-rises for the wealthy.
Dan Wang • Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future
DISPOSABLE ARCHITECTURE IS A CULTURAL CRISIS.
#architecture #design #development #LeonKreir https://t.co/gBMOAUWYgL
Rent control is the second-best way to destroy a city, after bombing. And, because of what it leads to in terms of under investment in repairing, maintaining, constructing new apartments, I think this is likely to exacerbate rather than improve issues around housing affordability in New York. This would be a gross policy error by... See more
Lawrence H. Summersx.comMy vision for transit is not a reinterpretation of the automobile highway – corridors for commuters – but a return to traditional transit systems: investments in financially productive places. A successful transit trip begins in a financially-productive place and ends in a financially-productive place, connecting the two in a way that is scaled to
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