Europe’s “productivity crisis” is that it’s selling the products of its own competitive markets & buying monopoly products - GAFA, V/MC/Paypal, Netflix - from the US (expressed below, properly, as US industrial policy). Don’t join the monopolists, Europe - beat them.

You're saying that increased space between buildings doesn't increase sprawl?
I grew up in California wildland-urban interface but lived many years in London, where houses look like this (no wildfires)

BlueSky is a nice place, not owned by a Bond villain, but on X there is actual discussion of sex & gender while this blue bubble would maintain its purity & ignorance by shouting such down as hateful RW fantasy. Pasted post by Joyce Carol Oates part of such conversation (link follows)

Am I too old to finally learn some macroeconomics? Peter Skott’s new book does make it tempting.