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The problem is to hamper excess duplications at one place, and divert them instead to other places in which they will not be excess duplications, but healthy additions. The other places may be at some distance, or very close by indeed. But in any case they cannot be fixed on arbitrarily. They must be places where the use concerned will have an
... See moreJane Jacobs • The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Daniel Christian Wahl • Design and Planning for People in Place: Sir Patrick Geddes (1854–1932) and the Emergence of…
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Local, human-scale economies and food systems that honor the “triple bottom line”: people, planet, and profits.
Bill Plotkin • Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World
This spatial fact is perhaps inherent in the process of urban or architectural planning itself, a process that involves miniaturization and scale models upon which patron and planner gaze down, exactly as if they were in a helicopter.13 There is, after all, no other way of visually imagining what a large-scale construction project will look like
... See moreProfessor James C. Scott • Seeing Like a State
That all urban development has been locked into path dependency on an economic concern now millennia out-of-date is surely a cause of unimaginable waste and inefficiency.