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In Texas, beaches are presumed to be parking lots, and local authorities can keep cars off the sand only if they provide a parking space for every fifteen feet of beach closed to traffic.
Paved Paradise
Henry Grabar
New Babylon would gestate in Constant’s mind for two decades. In his vision, land would be collectively owned, social systems would be hyper-connected, and automation would create a life of leisure for its citizens.
The Smart City Is a Perpetually Unrealized Utopia
technologyreview.com
If we consigned the production of affordable housing to subsidized builders whose regulated apartments were rented via lottery, as happens in high-cost cities like New York and San Francisco, we would never come close to achieving the scale of production to fix what was, in reality, an across-the-board housing shortage.
Paved Paradise
Henry Grabar
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