Essay: Outsourcing a Neighbourhood

New York’s Hudson Yards is the biggest private real estate development in the United States. If this is the future of the metropolis, it’s pretty bleak. A mixture of tax breaks, visas-for-investment, and diverted funds. Here are the details behind this new nexus of money, urban redesign, and inequality.

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