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Working-Class Urbanism
Recently, there was a bit of a stir when geographer Aaron Renn posted an article on New Geography alleging that “progressive urbanism” was advocating for a model of urbanism that was...
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Meeting Mike Davis
Mike Davis and I met on a summer day in San Diego. He graciously drove his truck and showed me his collection of “interesting sites” he planned for us to see in the area. As we were visiting those...
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A Homeless City in the Woods
A crusading minister has built a forested Utopia for the itinerant and destitute. But is a social experiment what they’re looking for, or just a place to live? The camp looks something like the scene...
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Who Has the Right to Shape the City?
Hamburg has been trying to woo the much-coveted “creative class” for years in a bid to secure its future. Now the city has become the front line in a bitter conflict over gentrification, with artists...
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A Recipe for Slums
“Urbanization is a vital phase of development, and if managed well, it can be a key driver of long-term economic growth in a country,” said World Bank president Robert Zoellick as his agency announced...
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A New Kind of Cornerstore Makeover
Although they tend to sell processed food made by the world’s largest companies, most corner stores are small, family-run businesses. And, when it comes to feeding their communities, many of these...
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A Contrarian’s Lament in a Blitz of Gentrification
Sharon Zukin had come to Greenwich Village and the Shrine of St. Jane not as a pilgrim but to wax sardonic. Ms. Zukin, a Brooklyn College sociology professor, stared at the modest red-brick town house...
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Otto Neurath: Gypsy Urbanism
The exhibition ‘Otto Neurath. Gypsy Urbanism’ is dedicated to the work of the Viennese philosopher and economist Otto Neurath (1882–1945). this scientist, housing activist and museum director, who...
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Can We Design Cities for Happiness?
Happiness itself is a commons to which everyone should have equal access. That’s the view of Enrique Peñalosa, who is not a starry-eyed idealist given to abstract theorizing. He’s actually a...
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City development and innovation
All places, even countries – as brilliantly satirized in this image – are distinctive clusters of people, communities, organizations, institutions, beliefs, tastes, personal and public mania. Go out...
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