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Fixing One of America's Worst Designed Cities

Fixing One of America's Worst Designed Cities

A Texas-Sized Intervention

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Coby Lefkowitz
Jul 15, 2025
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Last week, I published an article about the single most important element in creating good cities. If you haven’t read it yet, please do so here. In it, I teased that I would show how to improve a place by narrowing an overly wide Right of Way through building housing in the middle of the road. This isn’t necessarily a novel idea, but it sounds so wildl…

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