Why we need to design community into neighborhoods
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Why we need to design community into neighborhoods
and focuses on making cities more pedestrian-centric, supportive of local business, and, in a general sense, more neighborly.
Cal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
outside of their dwellings, many people are currently inhabiting the smaller pockets of space in and around their neighbourhoods: local parks, even just copses or patches of grass or playgrounds; the street corners (talking at a safe distance) of diverse, scaled-well high streets, that can actually speak to and articulate the local communities they... See more
Medium • 11: Post-traumatic urbanism and radical indigenism
Too many have bought into a perverse inversion of what the city should be. Cities are where wealth is created, not just where it is displayed. They are meant to be escalators into the middle class, not penthouses for the upper class. But through bad policy and worse politics, we are doing in the twenty-first century what we so feared in the ninetee
... See moreEzra Klein • Abundance
Again, I want to be very clear that these neighborhoods are not some hell on earth, and anyone from the rest of world would be smitten to have the chance to live in them. As I wrote above, if an average African, Asian, or Latin American asked my advice I would tell them to move there. It would be downright weird of me to tell them otherwise, given ... See more
Chris Arnade • A brief foray into Dallas, missing Kampala, and some thoughts on over-tourism
Imagine a downtown area with small-scale parks, nice shops, clean and safe streets, and signage that encourages exercise. This is the kind of place where a family wants to bring kids, where retirees and college students alike want to socialize, and where street entertainers naturally gravitate to perform and get paid. These places exist in many cit
... See moreJohn MacDonald • Changing Places: The Science and Art of New Urban Planning
there has been a far larger decline of neighborhoods that has little to do with material conditions. We are less likely to have personal connections with neighbors on our street, teachers in our kids’ schools, our local pastor or rabbi, or leaders in our community. Classmates don’t visit each other’s homes as much as they used to. In many neighborh... See more