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01 / belief
“You can still have your own bedroom, but you can’t go anywhere else and still get that level of support. And so that’s, I think, another reason why we’re increasingly stuck in place.”
02 / belief
“I think my model of Dharavi is the same model as Jane Jacobs's model of Greenwich Village in 1960, which is this is just a well-functioning community.”
03 / belief
“I think particularly for the young, living life live just beats the alternative.”
04 / belief
“We think that we’re going to spend tens of billions of dollars to protect New York and Miami, and that’s going to happen; but the thing I don’t understand and something we really need to need to invest in terms of knowledge creation is what are we going to do with the low-lying cities of the developing world to make them safe.”
05 / belief
“I mean, I think of myself as a child growing up in New York City, and whether or not it was the public pool that I swam in or the parks that I played in, or the roads that I traveled on, they were all delivered by Robert Moses.”
06 / belief
“I think the optimal work-from-home strategy is a couple of partners who are in an accounting practice and have decided they know each other perfectly well and are delighted to Zoom it in from wherever they are.”
07 / belief
“Remember, I’m an economist, which means that, like you, I believe that the real desiderate is choice.”
08 / belief
“I think that the story in Honduras shows that, that it’s very, very hard for a country to say, “Oh, we’re going to have this different jurisdiction run the city, and it’s going to be much more successful than the rest of the country, and we’re going to think that that’s okay.”
09 / belief
“I would say, actually, there are parts of Glasgow which are definitely underrated, but the physical bones of Glasgow are magnificent.”
10 / belief
“I think, in many cases, that would be a great thing to do, but it’s been very hard to move that politically, partially because of the strong opposition of the teachers’ unions.”
11 / belief
“My view is the resource curse tends to be in the intermediate levels, that once you have just an unbelievable amount of it, it tends to be much less of an actual resource curse.”
12 / belief
“I am never going to be as comfortable with that, despite the fact that I agree strongly that America and obesity is one of the health problems that made COVID so difficult here.”
13 / belief
“The problem is here, we’ve had some starting point, which we think people should have the right to park anywhere they want for no cost or for some severely subsidized amount.”
14 / belief
“Unless they make sure that they’re actually providing decent schools and safe streets, and doing so in a reasonable, cost-effective way, people will just run away. And unlike you, I don’t believe that’s a good thing because I think that when our geographic movements are determined by political dysfunction instead of economic reality, that’s bad.”
15 / belief
“The one failure of Brazil’s cities is that their police have failed, and that’s the one failure that I would say.”
16 / belief
“I agree with you in terms of the cost of American infrastructure. It’s a shocking thing how expensive it is to build.”
17 / belief
“Our view was that, in general, segregation is more harmful the less educated the group is.”
18 / belief
“If you’re telling me that it’s much more expensive to deal with poor people in suburban areas — something which I’m not totally confident that it is, but certainly, I believe that access to public transit is one reason why poor people tend to live in cities, then maybe you want to lean slightly against suburbanization of poverty.”
19 / belief
“Monterrey also has a very empowered university that’s highly competitive as well, that I think partially a force for good.”