Guest: Patrick Condon author of “Sick City: Disease, Race, Inequality and Urban Land"
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Jun 24, 2022 • 31M
Guest: Patrick Condon author of “Sick City: Disease, Race, Inequality and Urban Land"
You have nothing to lose, but your high rent!
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Today’s guest is Patrick Condon. Condon has over 25 years of experience in sustainable urban design: first as a professional city planner and then as a teacher and researcher. He started his academic career in 1985 at the University of Minnesota before moving to the University of British Columbia in 1992. He is currently the UBC’s James Taylor Chair in Landscape and Liveable Environments. Condon’s 2021 book “Sick City” is a call to action prompted by the crisis in our planned cities that the pandemic amplified. In “Sick City”, Condon brings the issues of race, inequality, and unaffordability to the forefront—illustrating how these ills can be traced to unequal access to urban land.
”Sick City” is offered for free in PDF form HERE.
Guest: Patrick Condon author of “Sick City: Disease, Race, Inequality and Urban Land"
Patrick Condon's interview was Great! He gave evidence that the principles laid out by Henry George are clearly in operation. Namely, increasing the supply of housing in a single city will not make housing cheaper. The reason is that 325 million people are free to move to any city in the US that builds housing. Only if the supply of housing throughout the country increases faster than the population, will housing become more affordable.
Great job Lark.