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A review by rossbm
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity by Charles L. Marohn Jr.
informative
slow-paced
4.0
Interesting book. Main thesis is that the pattern of suburban development by American towns is not sustainable due to cost of maintaining infrastructure not being supported by the local properties. As a result, calls for more "concentrated" (says not prop density?) and walkeable cities. Almost/pretty much advocating for degrowth.
Book kind of meanders a bit. Would have preferred more case studies and hard numbers. Insipred me to go check assessed property values and property taxes for the different Ottawa wards. My ward (somerset) has the most amount of dollar value per km2.
Book kind of meanders a bit. Would have preferred more case studies and hard numbers. Insipred me to go check assessed property values and property taxes for the different Ottawa wards. My ward (somerset) has the most amount of dollar value per km2.