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Infrastructure reveals what we really mean by abundance. Do we believe that prosperity is engineered from the top down (cities as a complicated machine)? Or do we recognize that it must be cultivated from the bottom up, one place at a time (cities as a complex, adaptive system)?

In nearly every American city, state and local ordinances dictate the minimum number of parking spaces required for everything from homes and restaurants to retail. Many of these regulations have remained unchanged since the 1960s, forcing today’s businesses, residents and cities to conform to the outdated priorities of planners from generations ago.

This is an article that dates back from 2019 but I think it’s pretty relevant still.

One of many infuriating stretches of road in the Rochester area