![]() Take the ‘burbs out of the equation and the picture looks quite different. Trouble was, the income stats Florida used were from metro areas, meaning that they included the suburbs - where most Americans live and work, Rybczynski points out. ![]() “There seems to be no limit, as yet, to the relationship between greater density and faster growth,” he wrote breathlessly. Florida included a chart with a story in The Atlantic charting the average income in cities to show that the more people you pack into a small area, the richer they become. So it was notable when, in a blog post a few weeks back, Rybczynski opened a can of Jedi-style whoopass on writer Richard Florida for playing “fast and loose” with income numbers to make the case that dense, city-style living is the source of all that’s good in the world. He knows The City like it’s nobody’s business. He has written a dozen or so books on technology, architecture, real estate - even a natural history of the screwdriver. ![]() Rybczynski is an architect, author, and professor of urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania. If you Google the term “a scholar and a gentleman,” the first result to pop up is a picture of Witold Rybczynski - or it would be if there were any justice in the world. ![]()
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