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Metropolis

Fixing America Starts With How We Live

22 min readJan 26, 2022

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Missing Middle Housing in Chicago. Source: Choose Chicago

How our built environment became polarized

Cars on a highway in the 1950s. Retrofile/Getty Images
Aerial of Levittown, Long Island, a community at the vanguard of exclusion & polarization. Source: Levittown Public Library
New developments by unit count as proportion of total market (excluding 20–49 units). Data: Census.gov

Why polarization is bad in our built environment

Fixing the polarity

Make places more affordable & diverse by reforming zoning: The Foundation

Examples of Missing Middle Housing, vernacular agnostic. Source: Opticos

Make communities healthier & more sustainable by reforming infrastructure: The Structure

Allow Missing Middle to be built by financing its development: Putting It All Together

The Brentwood in Philly’s Parkside neighborhood, an excellent example of missing middle housing. Source: Preservation Design Partnership

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Coby Lefkowitz
Coby Lefkowitz

Written by Coby Lefkowitz

Urbanist, Developer, Writer, & Optimist working to create more beautiful, sustainable, healthy, equitable and people-oriented places.

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