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All about the standing-upright chimps that really love to talk about themselves.
Why is it that some large urban projects succeed where others fail? What’s the magic formula for revitalizing cities?
While I doubt there’s any one formula that can be applied everywhere, I do think that there are lessons that can be learned everywhere, in cities all across the globe. Having been around just a little bit, I also like to think I learned a few of them firsthand.
I am a hardcore Ancient Music freak. I avoid the term “Classical” because of the connotations that it’s somehow elevating and needs to be forced onto kids. Despite that, however, it’s always on in the car and I cajole my kids into learning some appreciation for it:
Many novels are collaborations. The Great Gatsby, for example, proved to be almost too much for F. Scott Fitzgerald, so his editor Max Perkins had to take over much of the heavy lifting. While many nameless people at the publishing house don’t get credit for their contributions to a work, it’s very unusual for that one name running down the spine to be the only one responsible for that final, highly polished work.
One of the more amusing features of life in the USofA is the steady parade of things that are found to be bad for you. Studies are done constantly that show there is a risk of some health problem from nearly everything in our highly processed and man-made world.
This is the fourth and last in a series on cities in the USofA. The first entries can be found here:
Urban Core
Urban Core: Lessons
Urban Core: New Urbanism
What is the purpose of a city?
Barataria - The work of Erik Hare 