New NJB: Urban3 & The Math of Suburbia
Added 2022-03-05 11:00:03 +0000 UTCHey Everyone!
My latest video is ready, and it's the 7th episode in my "Strong Towns" series.
I wanted to make this video for a while: it's based off of the excellent analysis by the consulting company Urban3. They work with municipalities in the US to discover which developments are financially productive, and which aren't. Their results are absolutely fascinating.
Direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nw6qyyrTeI
This video started out loosely based off of the Strong Towns article "The Real Reason Your City Has No Money", which is worth reading on its own:
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/1/9/the-real-reason-your-city-has-no-money
There is so much more to say on this subject, but the analysis can get quite complicated, which is why most Urban3 videos on YouTube are at least 45 minutes long. But this at least provides a basic introduction to what they're about, and the shocking results about who is subsidizing who in American cities.
Enjoy, and thanks so much for your support!
Jason
Comments
Rural places typically don't pay a lot of tax and a lot of what they do pay is user fees on things like garbage collection (if they don't take it to the dump), so they're probably in the black, provided they don't have multi lane paved roads everywhere.
Not Just Bikes
2022-03-29 17:10:11 +0000 UTCThis is an amazing video I'm going to share, since it gets so specific with the math. Looking forward to more in this series, since I'm sure some people would start asking, "Well I'm fine paying more in taxes, or having my own septic system and maintaining my own county roads." In fact, I'm wildly curious - can you compare very rural areas to suburbs next? Are rural areas subsidized by anything, or are they closer to paying the "true cost" of living?
Karl Becker
2022-03-29 16:34:47 +0000 UTCWonderful - right up there with Why I Hate Houston & the trash video. It might be good to explain that on some of the maps red signifies great revenues/acre(hectare), not losses. You've outdone yourself, Jason. Strongtowns be proud.
George Donart
2022-03-13 05:07:15 +0000 UTC
