November 7, 2007

"It’s easy to build new housing in Dallas. Not so in Los Angeles. There, increased demand generates little new supply. Even within zoning rules, it’s hard to get permission to build." Both Dallas and Los Angeles are prosperous cities, but they're prosperous in extremely different ways. Virginia Postrel has been writing about the subject of late and has a new Atlantic column that'll be briefly visible before going back behind its pay screen.