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24 July 2009 2:34 PM
"California's Disposable Cities"
Josh Leon writes from Sacramento:
For the past few months I've been writing about what in my view is a global consensus that favors dense, mixed use and public transit centered development over the old anti-urban, suburban-centric model of the last century. These policies, the consensus goes, can grease the wheels of a global economy that relies increasingly on urban connectivity, personal mobility and access to ideas. As capital is mobile, so should people be. My problem is that the consensus relies excessively on market pressures to decide where people should live and migrate, and forces cities to deal with the swift vicissitudes of global capital. This city--hopefully temporarily--is on the losing end of what is euphemistically known as a market correction.
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