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What's remarkable about Mexico is that, despite extreme inequality, significant poverty, brutal organized crime, and a large informal sector, its town and city centers are lively, orderly, and clean. So what's our excuse north of the border?




I think people freak out about Houston because no one wants American abundance to look *like that.* Everyone is hoping that 21st-century abundance can do better than Houston-style sprawl I am so fascinated by the late 19th century and early 20th century in Europe because they were dealing with a lot of the same urban housing pressures that we are, and they dealt with them by applying a very smart building code. This code allowed builders to go up five or six stories, build to the property lines, but they had to build with masonry and they had to leave the rear part of the lot open for a courtyard. This code helped these cities to grow by hundreds of thousands over a short time span. And the buildings were beautiful and livable, and are still standing today and are accounted some of the most valuable neighborhoods on the planet










Houston economy is growing at 10.6%. That’s remarkable at this size.



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