Strong Towns : a bottom-up revolution to rebuild American prosperity
"American cities of all sizes financially struggle to do basic things: maintain streets, keep public safety workers employed, pay pensions, etc. The conventional response to these struggles is: more growth. If a city can induce more development, more construction, and more infrastructure, then it can grow its way to prosperity. Yet, what if the American approach to growth is the problem? What if the wealth generated by all that new investment isn...