Cities: July 2008 Archives
Field of Schemes: Tiger Stadium gets tenth life
There's still a chance that part of Detroit's grand old ballpark will be saved.
A thoughtful and thorough synopsis and review of the classic book on what makes an urban place thrive or fail. (With PLANiTULSA underway, every serious thinker in the city should read or re-read this book.)
Bounded Rationality: We Need A Long Term Energy Policy
Jeff Shaw writes: "If the entirety of one's energy policy is merely to reduce the amount of money we pay at the pump, or to merely increase drilling, that's not an energy policy, that's just stupid and not forward thinking enough for me. That's TASTP (Typical American Short Term Planning)....
"Part of the Energy Policy could include the re-urbanizing of large American cities, to such an extent that would reduce the amount of transportation energy consumed by its citizens. This could help 'free up' energy resources for farming, and manufacturing, and trade."
