It's the cities, stupid – Jane Jacobs' macroeconomics (2005)

Re:It's the cities, stupid – Jane Jacobs' macroeconomics (2005) by kqr2 on Monday January 04, 2016 @10:25PM (#10840895)

The San Francisco Bay Area is a huge economic engine, however, there is a severe housing shortage which could potentially disrupt this.

What would Jane Jacobs recommend in this situation?

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Re:It's the cities, stupid – Jane Jacobs' macroeconomics (2005) by Bensch on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @12:26AM (#10841393)

She would likely correctly identify restrictive zoning as the culprit, and recommend its elimination.

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Re:It's the cities, stupid – Jane Jacobs' macroeconomics (2005) by ktothemc on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @01:54AM (#10841728)

Unclear.

Jane Jacobs has a section in her seminal book on American cities about "gradual" and "cataclysmic" money, which can wipe out a delicate neighborhood ecosystem.

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Re:It's the cities, stupid – Jane Jacobs' macroeconomics (2005) by desdiv on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @09:14AM (#10843306)

>Cities can stab themselves in the back, too:

>They can restrict enterprise. The haves like to keep the have-nots out of business, apparently under the belief that prosperity is a zero-sum game; the result is at best lost opportunities for growth, and at worst stagnation and decline.

I think this describes the SF housing market pretty well.

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