Condonomics Debunked: A review of Patrick Condon's 'Broken City'

In Broken City , landscape architect Patrick Condon presents a diagnosis of the housing crisis. Condon claims to be a pragmatic empiricist, but he actually relies on extreme theoretical scenarios. He thinks in memes, not models. The result is a flawed analysis of housing policy. Condon misunderstands the relationship between land and housing prices, and incorrectly identifies upzoning as the main…