Inequality Is Inefficiency

The fundamental reason why American cities -- all of them -- underperform.

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I’m an urbanist. If you’re reading this, you probably are one too. You, like me, want to make cities better places. That’s at the absolute core of being an urbanist.

How we make them better places is where differences surface. And I guess it depends on what each one of us wants from a city. If you want to eradicate homelessness or …