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% Derisible • Theses for 2020
nearly universal U.S. practice of providing “free” parking occupying up to several times as much area as workers’ office space,
Paul Hawken • Natural Capitalism
the same logic can be used to develop models of how a city is put together by trading central markets for goods for markets for labor.
Luis M. A. Bettencourt • Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems
depends on the value of the radius R
Luis M. A. Bettencourt • Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems
Therefore, for every public job created by the bridge project a private job has been destroyed somewhere else.
Henry Hazlitt • Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
In effect, for whatever reason, Robert Moses elected to tear down 159 buildings housing 1,530 families instead of tearing down six buildings housing nineteen families—and the terminal.
Robert A. Caro • The Power Broker
In 2004, a meta-analysis of dozens of previous studies found that “on average, a 10 percent increase in lane miles induces an immediate 4 percent increase in vehicle miles traveled, which climbs to 10 percent—the entire new capacity—in a few years.”14