• How the tech industry sidelined women
• "this is written for people who are dismayed that Google fired the author of the recent diversity manifesto"
• An evolutionary biologist / psychologist comments on the memo
• Why people are outraged about the memo

story by @crosscut misses a few key points.https://t.co/3aPXPmdheI

1. vienna subsidizes social housing. it doesn't tax new housing (IZ)

— mike eliason (@bruteforceblog) June 29, 2017

And not to be forgotten are - strong renter culture and social safety net. Part of the whole picture. (Along with transit, etc of course).

— Fernando Medrano 🙈 (@wisemonkeysblog) June 29, 2017

• Tabula Peutingeriana, a road map of Europe - a copy of a Roman original thought to be based on a map by Agrippa
• Guide to the Tablula Peutingeriana
• Visual guide to the map
• NYC subway map style
• Google Maps directions for the ancient Roman world

• freeimages.com
• compfight - Flickr search
• Wikimedia Commons has a lot of public domain / CC stuff
• You can specify usage rights in Google Images

I am not suggesting that zoning is not a binding constraint in some locations. But there are parts of that map where there are big deficits in affordable units in locales where land is basically free. Zoning cannot be a constraint in those locales.

I’m not convinced by that all the arguments that came my way last night via Twitter that zoning is hamstringing the productivity in urban areas so that people in the countryside are suffering. Cities may boost national productivity numbers, but that is a function of aggregation, not necessarily of strong economic spillovers. It might be that lack of growth in cities ultimately dampens demand for whatever Iowa supplies to cities, but the regional distribution of economic growth over the past four decades suggests that whatever economic spillovers there might be are weak.

But then the Iowans could move to the city if the housing were not so expensive. And that’s true….and yet they have had fewer constraints on migration than people internationally have, and yet there they are, still in Iowa, while I have crazy people telling me we need a wall (even though we already got one) because California and New York are too full of immigrants. People should be able to move to where the jobs are, sure, but I also think David Imbroscio has a point: people should be able to stay home and live a decent life, too.

What makes me the enemy, you may ask? In their mind it’s very simple: if you’re not among the victims, you’re among the culprits. In your case, you’re that modern bogeyman called the liberal urbanite hipster ...

But it took our leaders ten years to figure out they needed to actually go to the slums and to the countryside.

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