Why Many Cities Have No Money
I can&#x27;t say much about mathematics of taxes described in the article, but I always thought that Soviet Union got a lot of it&#x27;s city planning very much right. Even a small town is built as a relatively tight formation of high-rises, yet leaving plenty of public space and greenery in the middle. The quality of life in the town that I grew up in is super high, because everything one might need: school, hospital, store, swimming pool, park, woods is an easy _walk_ away. The traffic through the town was even disallowed, which opened up a giant traffic-free area for us to play around as kids and elderly to use for socializing and to run their errands. For ease of visualizing here&#x27;s an aerial photo of said town in early 00s: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;sj9t3Jy.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;sj9t3Jy.jpg</a>