{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Works in Progress Podcast","title":"The lost art of building cities","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/0f440ed7\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":5119,"description":"In the nineteenth century, cities often grew a thousandfold while increasing wages, the size of homes, and delivering great public goods like electricity and plumbing to their people. What made them so extraordinary? They had a hybrid of laissez-faire and top-down control. Landowners could build almost anything they liked but street networks were laid out with near-Soviet thoroughness decades in advance. Transport and utilities, meanwhile, ran as regulated monopolies. They were funded by users, turned a profit, but prices were controlled.Samuel, Ben and Aria discuss what made this system work and why it was dismantled. ","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/6LM5UVWr309T-olggTJ9aOP2eEvMfZ2AVhMyFCHS3hY/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8zNWU2/YzBmZDQ1MDY1YTQx/YTM0ZTVmZDk1ZjEz/NjFmYi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}