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Brian Highsmith

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institutions, geography, democracy | UCLA Law
Los Angeles, CA brianhighsmith.com Joined June 2010
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🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]
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Brian Highsmith @bd_highsmith
I’ve been doing archival research on municipal socialism for a new project (watch this space), and have to laugh when I see these old headlines: it really has always been this way!
Adam Jentleson Verified account @AJentleson Oct 20
I’m enjoying the @sunraysunray Blueprint book and as usual finding myself in broad agreement with many of his goals.

But I’m also reminded of one of several reasons why I could never be a socialist, which is that I hate meetings while socialists really, really love meetings.
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Brian Highsmith @bd_highsmith
During the heyday of American municipal socialism (~1908-16), which coincided w Progressive good government reformism, socialist mayors campaigned on promises to improve public services by cleaning up government corruption. Hoan created a whole “Bureau of Economy and Efficiency”:
lej @_lej44 Oct 15
continuing to scream from the rooftop that reforming public union shenanigans is key to running progressive cities (ie: true progressivism maximizes services and benefits for all not a select group of in workers and union leadership)
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