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What is that balance? Better to ask: what do humans do? Work, shop, eat, drink, learn, recreate, convene, worship, heal, visit, celebrate, sleep: these are all activities that people should not have to leave downtown to accomplish. While there are exceptions, most large and midsized American downtowns possess a good supply of all of the above excep
... See moreJeff Speck • Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
The limit Hm → 1 allows individuals to fully sample the city within the smallest distance traveled,
Luis M. A. Bettencourt • Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems
Modern development, where the public sector leads and everything is built to a finished state, is a bad party. When someone buys that new house on the cul-de-sac, they don’t want more development around them. To the contrary; new development merely means more traffic, more people using the park, more taxes.
Charles L. Marohn • Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity
disadvantaged neighborhoods with higher levels of “collective efficacy”—the stuff of loosely linked neighbors who trust one another and share expectations about how to make their community better—have lower crime rates.3 A single eviction could destabilize multiple city blocks, not only the block from which a family was evicted but also the block t
... See moreMatthew Desmond • Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Wealth, Built Area, and the True Population Size of Chinese Cities
Luis M. A. Bettencourt • Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems
David Brooks • How the Ivy League Broke America
