And my co author on the paper about starting new cities, Jon Gruber, who's the chair of the MIT economics department, I think he would be 100% in line with what you are saying, which is This is only going to work if you do it within sort of that 30 minute transit window...of existing labor centers. I think in the United States though, as part of a federal infrastructure project, there could be discrete opportunities to do new developments in less well developed areas if they … (06:50–07:00)
CLAIM
Asserts that new city developments should be within a 30-minute transit window of labor centers.
This is an excerpt from a raw transcript. The assertions have not been audited or verified. Tap the video to view the source footage and understand the context.