City roll call

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Article: Respect for the Human Scale by Lakis Polycarpou (read article.)

Medieval
Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 11:04am

It’s all very nice to talk about change and how things need to change, but there is always this massive elephant in the room that everyone refuses to talk about, and this is why the American collapse is inevitable: cities in America are communistic. The reason they don’t change is that no one individual has the power and the incentive to change them.

I watched a video on streetsblog a few months ago where the need for more efficient parking prices was explained using toy cars. TOY FREAKIN CARS. How do you expect to do serious work on cities when you need the approval of children to get things done? How do you expect children to understand what a fractal is?

Change comes from markets. Until we can buy and sell cities on the NYSE, and a single man can change a city without having to explain himself to anyone, inertia will be the rule.
hfreeman17 in New York City
Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 9:52pm

The downside of the car is why I am such a fan of NYC, my hometown, which is such a wonderful pedestrian city. Also why I’m a fan of the initiative to levy a fee on automobiles coming south of a given street in Manhattan to limit congestion, etc.

Long live the walker.

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