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Urban areas are mixing populations
Luis M. A. Bettencourt • Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems
Sociologist Elijah Anderson’s work on the “cosmopolitan canopy” showcases Rittenhouse Square and Reading Terminal Market in Philadelphia—places that foster civil interactions among people from very different backgrounds. In these places, individuals change their behavior, often acting differently than they would in their own neighborhoods. Somethin
... See moreJohn MacDonald • Changing Places: The Science and Art of New Urban Planning
permanent settlements can become cultural self-constructed niches, where interdependence between humans and a set of technologies and rules of conduct become common to all and
Luis M. A. Bettencourt • Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems
define the borderlands, between the city’s social and cultural worlds.
Jeff Ferrell • Empire of Scrounge: Inside the Urban Underground of Dumpster Diving, Trash Picking, and Street Scavenging (Alternative Criminology)
In turn, we will see how the city as a whole—conceived as a social and economic network of these agents—derives its own balance of incomes and costs from those of its primary agents as an emergent phenomenon.
Luis M. A. Bettencourt • Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems
The local can mean human scale, a scale on which people can be heard, make a difference, understand the dynamics of power and hold it accountable—a democratizing impulse.
Rebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
lively, socially active urban space.
Paul Goldberger • Building Art
space-bound amenities create peaks of utility in specific places,