urban planning
Sixian and
urban planning
Why the Lab failed is a story of grand plans cast into turmoil by the disgrace of the grand planner himself. Among other things, it reveals how difficult it is to hold on to a place at the table, once you’ve got it (assuming you’d even want to). In the end, it boils down to a question: Is local government really the best place for public interest... See more
Amanda Kolson Hurley • One Mayor’s Downfall Killed the Design Project That Could’ve Changed Everything
Story of San Diego Civic Innovation Lab (2015)
City Observatory
cityobservatory.org
news site & think tank about cities
A Tree, a Roof, a Tent: Spatial Models for a New Democratic Paradigm
demnext.org
The Five Senses of Gentrification
makinganeighborhood.substack.com
A Global Push for More ‘15-Minute Cities’
bloomberg.com
Creating high density of not only people, but ideas and energy = serendipity and aliveness. Lewis Mumford writes that the primary purpose of the city is “to permit—indeed, to encourage—the greatest possible number of meetings, encounters, challenges, between varied persons and groups, providing as it were a stage upon which the drama of social life... See more