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Saltaire—and other deleted scenes from "Let Cities Build Utopia"
Dead ends, tangents, and failed hypotheses that didn't make it into the series.
Mar 20
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Elle Griffin
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LET CITIES BUILD UTOPIA
Cities should build utopia. Nations should let them. Residents should benefit from them.
Mar 19
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Elle Griffin
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Decentralize America: The case for cities that don't need Washington
Cities should be richer than the federal government. Mayors should matter more than the president.
Mar 17
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Elle Griffin
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An indigenous nation just built a better city than California Forever
We should build more cities. But they should benefit residents, not just developers.
Mar 12
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Elle Griffin
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Stop idolizing Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and Próspera
There are much more utopian cities than these.
Mar 10
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Elle Griffin
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Office Hours—register for March sessions
Here are the links.
Mar 7
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Elle Griffin
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Singapore: Where your home loses value & everyone's better off
Singapore solved private property by making it worthless over time.
Mar 5
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Elle Griffin
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Cities should own their land—like Vienna and Amsterdam
Land autonomy beats governance autonomy every time.
Mar 2
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Elle Griffin
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February 2026
Disney World has more autonomy than any US city
And it built a much better one.
Feb 26
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Elle Griffin
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San Francisco should be profitable—instead property owners are
Or how the Gilded Age screwed American cities and how we can reverse it.
Feb 24
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Elle Griffin
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Ebenezer Howard built a better city than the government
That time a group of investors built the welfare city London couldn't.
Feb 19
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Elle Griffin
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Cadbury built a city for workers—then gave it to them
It's still community-owned 100 years later.
Feb 16
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Elle Griffin
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