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A review by donovangleeson
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity by Charles L. Marohn Jr.
challenging
informative
sad
5.0
An absolute must-read. Makes me want to run for city council.
Shocking, terrifying, and honestly kinda depressing. So clearly lays out, with research to support, the nagging feeling of why cities like Chicago are so much more compositionally robust than cities like Dallas. (unimodal population density function, proportional land values to land-improvement values, INCREMENTAL growth mechanisms, etc.)
If you’ve ever heard me lament zoning, this book (along with the 3rd in the series: Escaping the Housing Trap) is why.
"The Municipal Ponzi Scheme"
From a municipal finance perspective, "our poor neighborhoods tend to subsidize our wealthy neighborhoods."
Shocking, terrifying, and honestly kinda depressing. So clearly lays out, with research to support, the nagging feeling of why cities like Chicago are so much more compositionally robust than cities like Dallas. (unimodal population density function, proportional land values to land-improvement values, INCREMENTAL growth mechanisms, etc.)
If you’ve ever heard me lament zoning, this book (along with the 3rd in the series: Escaping the Housing Trap) is why.
"The Municipal Ponzi Scheme"
From a municipal finance perspective, "our poor neighborhoods tend to subsidize our wealthy neighborhoods."