Progress without politics

Luke Rodgers — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:09:12 +0000

This is the vision Mike Bloomberg offers us:

Why not, at the same time: decision without debate! Council without councillors! Might as well do away with elections as well, since all that messy politics stuff just tends to get in the way of our otherwise inevitable progress towards utopia.

Smart suburb planning in NYC, 100 years ago

Luke Rodgers — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:30:07 +0000

I recently moved to New York City (Brooklyn, to be specific) and in an interesting twist came across a Slate magazine slideshow (Forest Hills Gardens) via a tweet from one of my favourite Toronto-based publications, Spacing magazine. The article/photo essay details the principles enacted by turn of the 19th-century Forest Hills Gardens community, a suburb 20 minutes from Manhattan that is transit-oriented, walkable, and features mixed-use zoning and a variety of single-family dwellings, from attached to freestanding.

At nearly $1,000,000 for one of the less flamboyant homes, though, I doubt that this community is still living up to its intention of providing options for low-income buyers.

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Progress without politics

Smart suburb planning in NYC, 100 years ago