In the Amazon HQ2 Contest, the Winner Might Actually be the Loser (opens in new tab)

, author, editor and Professor at the University of Toronto, is part of a growing chorus of prominent thinkers across the country who are speaking out against the race to the bottom that Amazon's search for a second headquarters has induced. Strong Towns is that cities should compete on their merits and strengths, not on the amount of local tax dollars they're willing to pony up. So Florida wrote and invited urban leaders, developers and economists to sign onto it — Chuck Marohn included. The...