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MONOCULTURE

                                                      April 29, 2001
                                              Rev: November 12, 2004

If "diversity" is the
essential quality of
cities, what happens
when the monoculture             The monoculture:
successfully invades?            starfuck/babytap/home despot...

When all is the same,                High-rise condos
why live here?                       with less soul             (Actually:
                                     than a Dixie Chick.        this is unfair
                                                                to the Dixie
Note that the monoculture is             "But it's so hard      Chicks...
*not* a free market phenomena            to *park* there!"      There goes
(few real things really are):                                   my clever
                                                                Chandler
The builders that build have connections;                       reference.)
the buyers they build to get tax breaks
from the city, etc.


"Rent control" can be
considered as an
(ugly/crude/desperate?)
attempt at fixing in place
diversity.

A drag on market forces
(which, after all have
a faddish quality...)         But: outguessing the biz cycle?
                              Difficult (to say the least).
   Adding a general drag
   force to change...
                        DRAG

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