The blue cities must be fixed
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The blue cities must be fixed
In the pages of Issue Five, AbdouMaliq Simone’s original essay “Notes on Unsettlement, Displacement, and Climatic Effects on Urban Life,” illustrated by @michaeldeforgecomics, analyzes the causes and implications of increasingly dire living conditions in cities all over the world by examining “unsettlement” as a critical modality of governance and... See more
instagram.com“The catastrophe in the making — in every town and city — indicates that good urban planning principles and traditional codes cannot be replaced by open-ended political negotiations between partial-interest “stakeholders.” Nor can the dominant Modernist typologies — skyscrapers; metastatic, monofunctional suburbs; and McMansions - be sustained
... See moreOne way to consider it is to ask ourselves, who are the people who should be working at that intersection? Who are the best-prepared people to accomplish that work?