The Imperative: Reversing Capital Outflow From the Urban Core

The American Suburbs were built on wealth extraction from the urban core. We have a unique opportunity to reverse the flow polarity, to the benefit of ourselves, Nature, and the pursuit of happiness.

A follow-up to Suburbanasia. There, the argument was prudential and addressed to you: leave the suburbs and move to the densest proximal core, because asymmetric gains distribute non-linearly with location. This one is structural and addressed to everyone: the centrifugal flow of money from cores to suburbs is an artificially engineered extraction, and …