In a long (but interesting!) essay on the city's land-use process and how it's been shaped by the legacy of urban planning deity Jane Jacobs, a Queens nonprofit development exec summons the bravery to tell people to cool it with all the Jacobsian thinking: "Ultimately, many of the policies she advocated blocked real-estate development—causing prices of existing housing stock to rise and pricing out all but the wealthiest residents." And no, his last name isn't Moses. [WSJ]
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