{"id":4067,"date":"2018-06-20T12:59:19","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T12:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/20\/how-tech-companies-conquered-americas-cities-the-new-york-times\/"},"modified":"2018-06-20T12:59:19","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T12:59:19","slug":"how-tech-companies-conquered-americas-cities-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/20\/how-tech-companies-conquered-americas-cities-the-new-york-times\/","title":{"rendered":"How Tech Companies Conquered America\u2019s Cities – The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Across the country, cities are straining. Housing costs are exploding, transportation systems are overwhelmed, infrastructure is crumbling, and inequality is on the rise. Yet there\u2019s little support from federal or state authorities \u2014 <\/span>\u201cinfrastructure week\u201d<\/a> <\/span>is a punch line in Washington, not a policy. Efforts to raise money for local projects are <\/span>under siege from conservative activists<\/a>, while measures to build more housing are halted by <\/span>liberal ones<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Into this void march the techies, who come bearing money, jobs and promises of out-of-this-world innovation. But there\u2019s a catch. Corporations are getting wide latitude in determining the future of cities. They are controlling more key services and winning important battles with once-indomitable city governments. Local officials find themselves at the mercy of tech: They can\u2019t live without tech money, even if tech interests have a way of eclipsing every other civic priority.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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How did tech companies become America\u2019s most-powerful local power brokers?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Across the country, cities are straining. Housing costs are exploding, transportation systems are overwhelmed, infrastructure is crumbling, and inequality is on the rise. Yet there\u2019s little support from federal or state authorities \u2014 \u201cinfrastructure week\u201d is a punch line in Washington, not a policy. Efforts to raise money for local projects are under siege from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-13B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}