A prediction: In the future Central Banks will have tools that allow them to target fiscal policy to different metro city-regions across the country. Cooling overheated housing markets in one area while fanning flickering flames in another.

#EconomyOfCities

Our downtown public realm is in disrepair, its decline the result of recent years of neglect by our City Hall. A budget surplus of $20m + financial assets of $110m is not fiscally conservative, it’s leadership failure to invest. Leadership w/out vision, pride of place, ambition. #ycd #EconomyOfCities

B.C. municipalities had a combined $3.1-billion surplus last year. Why the caution? https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-municipalities-surpluses-history-1.6699074

Is anyone aware of an objective critique of Kate Raworth's Doughnut Economics? #EconomyofCities #UrbanEconomics #MicroEconomy #economics

#urbandesign #janejacobs #economyofcities #urbanism

#introduction

Posts here are by me, Frank Murphy. I’m on Vancouver Island, in Canada’s westernmost province, British Columbia, in a medium-sized (100k) city, #Nanaimo, on the land of #Snuneymuxw, a Coast Salish First Nation. #ycd

#urbandesign #janejacobs #economyofcities #urbanpublicspace #walkablecity 🇺🇦