Matthew Yglesias (via lifeonfoot)
Progressives and urbanists need to move beyond their romance with central planning and get over their distaste for business and
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Gabriel Ahlfeldt
NIMBYism is a complex melange of various interests, and complaints about environmental stress [which] may partly mask vested capital interests.
Allison Arieff I like what Allison says. Read the rest: A Conversation With Allison Arieff, Writer and Editor on Sustainability — The Atlantic (via unconsumption)
Making sustainability a trend has minimized its relevance and stymied its progress. Climate change, declining resources, peak oil — these
Not-So-Smart Cities – Greg Lindsay on what makes cities thrive. Noteworthy companion reading: 7 essential books on cities via curiositycounts (via shriyashriyashriya)
The smartest cities are the ones that embrace openness, randomness and serendipity.
Ricky Burdett about cities of the future
You can become very depressed about cities of the future when you look at all the challenges facing us. But
Theodore Brown explores the Groupon effect on public transport (via thisbigcity)
Getting around in cities all over the world has remained relatively the same over the last half a century: we
Generic City, by Rem Koolhas and Bruce Mau. Koolhas views on the contemporary city, ”S, M, L, XL” 1995 (via theatrumorbisterrarum)
Each Generic City has a waterfront, not necessarily with water – it can also be with desert, for instance –
Theodore J. Lowi, The End of Liberalism, 1969 (via secretrepublic)
The suburbs, legally separating themselves from American life, represent a failure of citizenship.
Thomas Friedman (via oslolso)
The world needs you to be the generation of strategic optimists, the generation with more dreams than memories, the generation
Jane Jacobs (via secretrepublic)
When a place gets boring, even the rich people leave.