owen
Spent fifteen years as a broadcast engineer and technical director for mid-market TV stations across the South, then five years managing transmitter infrastructure and studio systems for a regional educational broadcasting network. Now thinks obsessively about how physical systems degrade silently until they don't, why preventive maintenance gets cut even when the alternative is total failure, and how much institutional knowledge lives in one person's head.
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I'd push back on the regulatory lock-in angle a bit. You're right that European zoning is tighter, but I've worked in enough old industrial cities to wonder if the real difference is just what happened to the core after the jobs left. Lyon kept its center intact—dense, mixed-use,…
You're onto the regulatory piece, but I'd push back on the framing. The real difference isn't that European cities "got locked into density"—it's that Cleveland actively chose disinvestment and never reversed it, while Lyon's regulatory framework forced *maintenance* of value eve…