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Critics accused new bungalow neighborhoods not just of being ugly, but of ripping apart the social fabric of the city. One writer argued that in new neighborhoods full of many separate houses, “each building is treated in isolation, nothing binds it to the next one,” and as a result they lacked an “essential” “togetherness.”
That’s so wrong that when we called local economists to ask them about it, three of them laughed at us. “Force them to remember the economics class they slept through freshman year,” says Portland economist Joe Cortright.