A Berlin Borough Buying Out Private Landlords
The developed world really needs to start building new cities. People shouldn&#x27;t be deprived of the opportunity to live in an downtown area just because the people already there feel entitled to their way of life. But, people can lose everything if you economically force them from their homes. That&#x27;s not desirable either.<p>My proposal for new cities involves strictly limiting the foot print to enable it to be completely walkable. That would mean you don&#x27;t have any cars, which is good for many reasons. A lot of what local governments do is complicated by having to service so many different residences over a wide area (think sewage and water, mail, policing&#x2F;fire protection, road maintenance, etc). If you mostly just build up, then that all becomes much easier, which means government can be much smaller and cheaper. And I think the city becomes much more livable, as a large area around the city is green space, and the streets can be taken over by open air restaurants&#x2F;cafes&#x2F;bars on weekends.