Reddit reviews The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class-and What We Can Do About It
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And Serbia, and the Philippines, and to some extent even Austria. Rural + exurban areas vs. urban + trendy suburban. This book gets into it.
Agreed. Prop 13 is like a curse to most Californians.
Speaking of taxes, I like Richard Florida’s idea: tax land based on a a formula that benefits dense housing. His book:
New Urban Crisis
I think remote work might work to some extent, for some roles, but there is a force multiplier at play in "super-star" cities where all the top talent lives. Think SF/Manhattan/London. Full of people at the top of their industries, interacting with each other everyday, leading to massive network effects. Big, important, companies will always want to have a big presence in these centres, and any jobs they can push remotely are just going to be next on the out-source / automation chopping block.
The New Urban Crisis is a good book on this phenomenom, and it happens to be written by a Rotman prof.