Matthew Yglesias (via lifeonfoot)
Progressives and urbanists need to move beyond their romance with central planning and get over their distaste for business and
Progressives and urbanists need to move beyond their romance with central planning and get over their distaste for business and
NIMBYism is a complex melange of various interests, and complaints about environmental stress [which] may partly mask vested capital interests.
Making sustainability a trend has minimized its relevance and stymied its progress. Climate change, declining resources, peak oil — these
The smartest cities are the ones that embrace openness, randomness and serendipity.
You can become very depressed about cities of the future when you look at all the challenges facing us. But
Getting around in cities all over the world has remained relatively the same over the last half a century: we
Each Generic City has a waterfront, not necessarily with water – it can also be with desert, for instance –
The suburbs, legally separating themselves from American life, represent a failure of citizenship.
The world needs you to be the generation of strategic optimists, the generation with more dreams than memories, the generation
When a place gets boring, even the rich people leave.