Archive Dive: Oak Tree Road and the Second Life Cycle Blues

Fine-grained commerce meets car-oriented landscape meets immigrant community

I first published this piece at Strong Towns in 2022, and have never published it at my newsletter, although I wrote a follow-up about it back then. I had almost forgotten about this one, just because I’ve made the same basic set of points many times, but each instance is still unique, and I haven’t used this example that much in my writing, so I wanted…