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Uncovering the Infraordinary

Lost in NYC

The ballet isn’t happening on the sidewalk anymore. You can try telling a wholesome story about the interplay of the neighborhood butcher, the baker, and the Chinese herbal medicine shop owner, to the extent that they still exist. Of course, amusing, surprising, eccentric things still occur in New York on a daily basis. But the most desirable and e... See more

Neither Here Nor There - Urban Omnibus

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ryan • 14 cards

Things were different in the city. The crucial factor in the building of public works on Long Island was space, vast, endless tracts of uncluttered openness; in the city the crucial factor was lack of space and the fact that space was not merely filled but filled with people, people with their endlessly intertwined, hopelessly snarled tangles of as

Robert A. Caro • The Power Broker

A project needs to be quite profitable to make it through that gauntlet—and it needs to be acceptable to its wealthy neighbors—and that pushes developers toward luxury condos.

Ezra Klein • Abundance

The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America

David A. Banks • 1 highlight

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Cover of The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America

In most metropolitan areas, land values increase over time at least in proportion to population growth, and the higher the land value the more intensively land needs to be used to justify the cost of acquiring the property and redeveloping it.