The Four Drivers Of Kotkin’s Opportunity Urbanism

How transportation, density, discretionary income, and limited land-use regulation combine to maximize opportunity zones for upward social and economic mobility.

Joel Kotkin’s Opportunity Urbanism "asserts that the fundamental (but recently forgotten) core mission of cities is to accelerate the upward social and economic mobility of its inhabitants.

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