Matthew McIntosh’s Reviews > The Unfinished Metropolis: Igniting the City-Building Revolution > Status Update

Mention of Jacksonville how, according to a ProPublica investigation, has one of the highest levels of pedestrian “violation” enforcement but no difference in KSI for pedestrians.

The start of Chapter 3 on page 57 aptly discusses how housing affordability has always been an issue in Hawaii but the policy proposals (banning AirBnBs, taxing vacant homes, etc) does not solve the fundamental issue that Hawaii builds only 2-4 thousand housing units per year versus 13,000 high school graduates/year. Per state Senator Stanley Chang.

On chapter 2 which covers how the regulations cities developed to reduce housing led to new housing typologies to emerge (e.g. “Dingbats” in LA) leading to further regulations to kill those new typologies.

Finished introduction. On Chapter 1