How Should We Be Thinking About Urbanization? A Freakonomics Quorum - Freakono... - The Diigo Meta page

• 07 Mar 12
  

  Allen Harrell

  development dolores_hayden alan_berube urban_development robert_bruegmann

• 07 Nov 11
  

  ty frederickson

  development dolores_hayden alan_berube urban_development robert_bruegmann

• 30 Aug 10
  

  maiko tanaka
• 20 Aug 08
  

  Jeremy Price

  urbanization ecology development environment

• 12 Aug 08
  

  Robert Corley

  Society Birmingham GCL Honors

• 01 Jan 08
  

  Brian G. Dowling

  economics

  • This year marked the first time in human history that more people lived in cities than in rural areas. What problems and opportunities does this present? What effects has it had on our local and global culture? Economy? Health?
• 24 Dec 07
  

  bartb

  UrbanPlanning PrintNow

• 12 Dec 07
  

  Stephen Harlow

  Urbanisation Only Connect

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  Colin Bennett

  trends

• 11 Dec 07
  

  tony sheng

  cities

Public Stiky Notes

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  Yule Heibel on 2007-12-20
  - of course he has to say that, since he has staked his speaking career on "the long emergency"...
  - Kunstler drives me nuts.
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  Yule Heibel on 2007-12-20
  - it's obvious that he used to write science fiction, too
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  Yule Heibel on 2007-12-20
  - see previous comment
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  Yule Heibel on 2007-12-20
  - his entire text is worth highlighting!
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  Yule Heibel on 2007-12-20
  - I wonder how the declining transportation costs aspect would sit with Kunstler, who would presumably counter with "just you wait, that'll be over soon"...
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  Yule Heibel on 2007-12-20
  - an important aspect here is that "smart" also means smart in different ways, and as Aristotle said (paraphrase): a city is composed of many different kinds of people (ok, he said men, but we mean people), and it's that rubbing up against difference (and tolerance) that makes cities so very valuable.
  - disagreement is good
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  Yule Heibel on 2007-12-20
  - exactly! Or, in the West's case, because the poor can expect to access services that they wouldn't get in less urban places
• 
  Yule Heibel on 2007-12-20
  - well said.
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  Yule Heibel on 2007-12-20
  - that's a very interesting (and different) way to characterize sprawl... much more "organic," with interdependencies...
  - have to think about this one...
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  Yule Heibel on 2007-12-20
  - that's an excellent precis!
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  Yule Heibel on 2007-12-20
  - really well put; another reason to remediate brown fields and build on them; conserve greenfields.
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  Yule Heibel on 2007-12-20
  - the benefits of co-location
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  Yule Heibel on 2007-12-20
  - interesting -- argues for the importance at fixing infrastructure *because* the Friedman model ("the world is flat" and it matters not where you live) isn't going to become a reality any time soon. Quite the opposite.
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  Yule Heibel on 2007-12-20
  - that's what I ask myself, too...

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