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How to Fix a Country in 12 Days
Municipal imagination: a movement whose time has come
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According to Adam Baacke, Lowell’s assistant city manager for planning and development, achieving this transformation was essentially a three-step process that could perhaps be best described as politics, permitting, and pathfinding. Politics refers to changing attitudes (and people) on the city council, where most members shunned downtown housing
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emblematic ideas to take forward could include: * resilient and diverse communities as essential foundations; * the value of trust in government and civic institutions; * recognising the agility and capability latent within the public sector; * and the enormous value of inefficiency and redundancy in systems; * an understanding that there are... See more
Medium • 11: Post-traumatic urbanism and radical indigenism
That doesn’t mean that we have to solve huge, overarching issues with huge, overarching solutions. In fact, we need to resist these sorts of solutions, because our landscapes and our technologies are in transition, so we absolutely want to be able to explore, experiment with, and even roll back systems as needed, and to do this in different ways in
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