{"id":1413,"date":"2010-04-13T16:17:04","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T21:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/?p=1413"},"modified":"2010-04-29T19:40:07","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T00:40:07","slug":"how-bad-planning-reduces-iq-and-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/how-bad-planning-reduces-iq-and-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"How Bad Planning Reduces IQ…and Pay"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mayor Pave<\/a> and his minions are always lamenting the loss of economically successful people <\/a>to the ‘burbs or complaining about ‘those people’ <\/a>who do settle here. I’ve long maintained that if he & his developer buddies were to begin building the city in a more urban<\/em> form, thus conducive to urban social interactions, we would see an invigorated economy, higher incomes and other good tidings. And<\/em> we wouldn’t have to resort to racist\/classist\/scapegoating rhetoric. In fact, it was that promise — a cool city — that got this mayor elected in the first place. But somewhere along the line he got derailed onto the track bound for Rockford (the perennial worst city in the country).<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the research is rolling in that justifies the will of the people ca. 2003….<\/p>\n

This NYT article<\/a> delves into the latest research on the power of cities to generate higher incomes than low-density places. It all comes down to good old fashioned face-to-face communication.<\/p>\n

Robbie Webber provides\u00a0a marvelous illustration as to how this works in day to day life<\/a>. She’s a geographer, so of course she gets how proximity & design empowers us as it convivializes our urban landscape!<\/p>\n

So not only is Mayor Pave saddling us with low-density, car-friendly, cul-de-sac & strip mall development fit for a successful 1950s economy, he is also laying the groundwork for another rust-belt disaster in terms of personal income decimation.<\/p>\n

We need a new mayor who understands the power of place for our well-being. And we definitely don’t need an Orange County Republican running our economic development planning<\/a>.<\/p>\n

P.s. I’m working on a post of how Green Kathleen is doing Mayor Pave one better in her constant rubberstamping of sprawl across the county.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Denser cities do better economically. Why? Because they bring people together, through proximity & design.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[760,5,12,452],"tags":[799,804,14,800,805,55,29,165,802,803,373,806,666,801,51],"class_list":["post-1413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-environment","category-madison-politics","category-urban-designplanninggeography","tag-density-and-economics","tag-design","tag-detroit","tag-edward-l-glaeser","tag-front-porch-coffee-talk","tag-madison","tag-mayor-pave","tag-new-york-times","tag-paul-snyder","tag-proximity","tag-robbie-webber","tag-rockford","tag-the-daily-reporter","tag-urban-economics","tag-urban-geography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1413"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1421,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions\/1421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}