Progressive Cities Aren’t Living Up To Their Values
How Ideology is getting in the way of good city building
39 min readApr 15, 2023
Progressive cities have been telling themselves a myth for (at least) the last 20 years. Conjuring an identity based on virtue, and strengthened by a sort of moral superiority that looks down its nose at every other part of the country, large, prosperous, and blue cities have come…