What Charles Marohn thinks about permitting

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Civil engineer and land use planner, founder and president of Strong Towns, author of Escaping the Housing Trap. Argues that the American pattern of development since the Second World War does not generate enough wealth to maintain the infrastructure it obliges cities to keep.

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1. 12 Jun 2017

   Our readingA neighbourhood redevelops itself when rising land values meet permission to build more intensely, and it stagnates when either half is missing.

   Their wordsIt is incrementally rising land values, combined with the ability to redevelop to something more intense, that naturally prompts the redevelopment of property in decline.

   ↗The Power of Growing Incrementallystrongtowns.org 4th of 4 in this piece