Sublime

In the 1950s they [residents] considered the streets to be their home, an extension of their property, whereas today [1995] the streets are, for many people, an alien place. A block is not really a community in this neighborhood anymore. Only a hou

There’s also the misalignment between legacy mechanisms and the risks that dominate today. A key component of social insurance in the age of the automobile and mass production is that it was focused on salaried workers with steady jobs. Yet today steady jobs are increasingly the exception rather than the norm, at least for those who are newly hired

We feel paralyzed because we fear that our institutions and leaders are no longer able to operate and the solutions require many to act against their own immediate interests. We strive to make more people and communities capital-efficient and market-friendly even as the water level rises. The logic of the market has overtaken most of our waking liv

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.