What Charles Marohn thinks about public debt

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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. 17 Jun 2011

   Our readingSuburban growth is a Ponzi scheme because a city of finite size cannot keep growing at an accelerating rate, and only that would pay the bills it has taken on.

   Their wordsOf course, with the suburban model, it is physically impossible for a city of finite dimension to grow indefinitely, let alone at amounts that accelerate forever.

   ↗The Growth Ponzi Scheme, Part 1strongtowns.org 2nd of 2 in this piece