[schleiss]

Somehow I found the article missing the solution, the organisation argues that "placemaking" [1] helps. They also argue that "Will this public project generate enough tax revenue to sustain its maintenance over multiple life cycles? Try asking that -- you will be amazed." is the question to successful public projects. But, I don't know if that holds true universally.

[1] https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2011/6/16/the-growth-pon...

[burlesona]

The strange thing is that people don’t normally ask the question. It’s just assumed that all infrastructure generates positive economic returns, which is far from true.

You asked “where’s the solution.” This post is one bit of a large volume of Strong Towns material, and this series is only meant to explain one particular problem cities face.

The best source of Strong Town “solution” material is the “Action Lab,” https://actionlab.strongtowns.org/hc/en-us/categories/360004...

[nine_k]

I think solutions should be somehow concentrated around making less infrastructure serve more taxpayers.

One obvious way to do that is to build denser cities.