One Mayor’s Downfall Killed the Design Project That Could’ve Changed Everything
Amanda Kolson Hurleynextcity.org
One Mayor’s Downfall Killed the Design Project That Could’ve Changed Everything
In our new experimental living pattern, feedback and adaptation have become meaningless. We do not perceive any need for our human habitat to harmoniously balance multiple things simultaneously. Why would we when we can just go ahead and use our resources to solve problems as we become aware of them?
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In the early 1990s, a long-simmering urban planning movement finally found its legs. For thirty years, a small group of urban advocates had grown weary of merely expounding the virtues contained in Jacobs’s book and decided to get organized. In 1993, the Congress for New Urbanism (CNU) had their first meeting. Its founders included the influential
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The whole area needed to be re-planned. The buildings intended for the cemetery needed another slot in the plan; perhaps the density of the campus as a whole needed to change. To correct for these changes properly, it would have been necessary to draw an entirely new master plan. But of course a new plan was not drawn. There was neither money nor e
... See moreA lot of the most important work that public institutions do is the most laborious, it's the most time consuming. It's the first thing that you would optimize away if you were trying to increase the profitability of your VC library, right?