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What Is The City But The People? (New York City Department of City Planning, 1969)
youtube.comBill Maher asks Rahm Emanuel why Chicago's mayor has such a low approval rating, and the panel agrees that Democrat policies have ruined large American cities:
Bill Maher: "I read that the current mayor of Chicago has an approval rating of 6.6%. What's going on in Chicago?"
Rahm Emanuel: "We've gone through 5 years where... See more
Eric Abbenantex.comThe first thing to understand is that the public peace—the sidewalk and street peace—of cities is not kept primarily by the police, necessary as police are. It is kept primarily by an intricate, almost unconscious, network of voluntary controls and standards among the people themselves, and enforced by the people themselves. In some city
... See moreJane Jacobs • The Death and Life of Great American Cities
City Park Commissioner and as City Construction Coordinator—and
Robert A. Caro • The Power Broker
> be me, move to Manhattan
> thought rich people just had drivers and doormen
> turns out there's an entire shadow economy catering to the ultra-rich: assistants, private chefs, security, manicurists, masseuses
> meet a 24 y/o girl from some random Midwest state school
> now a “family... See more
John Wangx.comThe citizen, stripped of initiative, becomes an operator of forms — a node in a bureaucratic exoskeleton that stretches from classroom to capital market.
Chor Pharn • Human Surplus and Its Leftovers - By Chor Pharn
I Work For an Evil Company, but Outside Work, I’m Actually a Really Good Person
mcsweeneys.net
Planning Commission