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Strategies for creating such housing often trend toward subsidies, cheap and distant land, density bonuses, special financing, and lower construction quality. But each of these strategies has problems.
Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change
Peter Calthorpe
This isn’t a matter of simply needing more precise instruments; it is an immutable property of the universe.
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
Smart city technology should do things like shorten commute times, speed the construction of affordable housing, improve the efficiency of public transit, and reduce carbon emissions by making building technology more efficient and providing less polluting transportation alternatives to the car.
Toronto Wants to Kill the Smart City Forever
technologyreview.com
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