Why Can't America Build Better Cities?

The anti-city bias built into the nation's fabric.

Source: wikipedia.org

Today’s piece will be a little nerdy, perhaps a little lecture-y. You’ve been forewarned.

I often think about why American cities seem almost incapable of capitalizing on their assets, of routinely and easily making the case for greater investment from the federal and state levels of government. We struggle to make public transit inv…