The Great Reset: What Will It Mean for Jacksonville?

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A local planner reviews Urban theorist Richard Florida's explanation of why the recession is the mother of invention and ponders what it means for Jacksonville.



Thinking Anew: Applying the Lessons of the Great Reset to Jacksonville

 
Seen from the perspective of The Great Reset, the problem for Jacksonville – which, curiously, is nowhere mentioned in the book – is threefold.  First, like many other Sunbelt cities, our local economy (or, to use the older term, our economic base), not to mention our very perception of reality, became fixated on what Florida calls “the great growth illusion of development for development’s sake.”
 


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