Pinboard (robertogreco) https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/public/ recent bookmarks from robertogreco Tolstoy and the Illusion of Inevitability | THR Web Features | Web Features | The Hedgehog Review 2026-06-17T10:22:04+00:00 https://hedgehogreview.com/web-features/thr/posts/tolstoy-and-the-illusion-of-inevitability robertogreco“Traveler, there is no road. The road is made by walking.” —Antonio Machado Machado’s famous line suggests that the future does not exist in advance, waiting to be discovered, but comes into being through a choice among possible actions. Many possibilities exist at any given moment. The one that becomes actual depends on coincidences and chances as well as choices, all producing events whose significance emerges only as they unfold. That, as it happens, is also Leo Tolstoy’s argument in War and Peace. In the book’s battle scenes, plans dissolve into confusion, causes multiply beyond reckoning, and outcomes hinge on fleeting, unrepeatable moments. On the eve of the Battle of Borodino, the novel’s hero, Prince Andrei, reflects that what lies ahead is not a determinate sequence but “a hundred million chances…decided on the instant.” What matters is less the perfection of a plan and more the ability to respond to what no plan could anticipate, by means of what Tolstoy calls “alertness.” For Tolstoy, this is a feature not of war alone but of reality in general. History, far from representing the execution of a grand design, is rather the result of countless interacting elements, each shaping and reshaping what can happen next. New possibilities are always emerging as earlier ones are left unrealized. Life more closely resembles an evolving system than a solved equation. Events are contingent in Aristotle’s sense of the term: They “can either be or not be.” After all, if things could only happen one way, human action would collapse into the mechanical execution of what was already implicit in the present. “If human life could be [entirely] governed by reason,” Tolstoy writes in the book’s epilogue, “the possibility of life is destroyed.” And yet again and again, in our aspiration to a hard science allowing for prediction, we are drawn to deny this. That is one reason War and Peace has never lost its relevance. The Recurring Dream of Certainty Since the scientific revolution, Western thought has repeatedly returned to the hope that contingency might be an illusion. As Newton explained the baffling complexities of planetary motion by four simple laws, perhaps, many imagined, the same could be done for human affairs. Thinkers as diverse as Marx, Skinner, and Malinowski have shared this dream, with each promising, in his own way, to reveal necessity beneath apparent disorder. Complexity, for such men, is conceived of as a surface phenomenon, concealing an underlying simplicity that, once uncovered, will render the future knowable. Pierre-Simon Laplace insisted that events are certain, not probable: In speaking of their probability, we are really speaking of the chances our guesses may be accurate, but the events themselves are certain. Time and again, the apparent contingency of events is presented as evidence of our own ignorance. If we knew enough, we would see that events could not have happened otherwise. But there is another possibility: that contingency is real—that the world is not merely complicated but fundamentally generative, that new possibilities are not simply revealed over time but produced within it, through the interaction of elements that cannot be fully anticipated in advance. This is the world Tolstoy describes, one where knowledge cannot precede action, only emerge through it. Time and the Limits of Foresight Tolstoy’s deepest insight concerns time itself. In a deterministic view, time is a neutral space where events unfold according to fixed laws and the future lies already implicit in the present, waiting to be revealed. But in Tolstoy’s world, time is generative. Each moment reshapes what can happen next. Possibilities interact, combine, and disappear, their significance becoming visible only as events unfold. One might say that the system is constantly generating variation—new configurations, new alignments, new opportunities—but without any overarching mechanism that selects among them in advance. Selection happens locally, in real time, through action. The closer one looks, the more things fail to simplify, as in the Newtonian model, and ramify instead. What happens to be taken up is what persists. This is why most Austrian and Russian generals in War and Peace are consistently wrong. They believe they possess a science of warfare—a system capable of anticipating outcomes. Before Austerlitz, they insist that “every contingency has been foreseen.” The result is Napoleon’s greatest victory—yet their confidence remains intact, attributing failure to imperfect execution, never to the limits of prediction itself. As so often happens, the conviction that events must conform to a science makes the supposed science unfalsifiable. The wisest general, Kutuzov, appreciates that people conceive only of a few possibilities while there are thousands. Famously, in the Council of War before Austerlitz, he advises not more planning but “a good night’s sleep.” What matters most is the alertness to seize opportunities that cannot be anticipated in advance. This distinction—between a world that can be mapped and one that must be navigated—extends beyond warfare. Wherever outcomes depend on unfolding interactions, local knowledge, and irreversible time, no complete science is possible. One can orient oneself, but one cannot blaze the path in advance. The Illusion of Inevitability If the future is open, why does the past so often appear inevitable? Tolstoy offers several answers, including what he calls “the law of retrospection.” Once events have occurred, we can reconstruct the paths that led to them. We identify signs that seem to foreshadow the outcome we now know. Alternatives fade from view—not because they were not real, but because they left no trace. The result is a powerful illusion: What happened begins to seem as if it had to happen. Tolstoy asks us to imagine a group of men hauling a log, all pulling in different directions. Wherever they happen to wind up, someone will say they planned to do so. This retrospective projection—which one of us has called backshadowing—reshapes our understanding of history. We look at earlier moments and conclude that the outcome was implicit all along. The more coherent the explanation, the easier it is to forget that things might have turned out otherwise. To avoid backshadowing, we must practice sideshadowing—recognizing that other outcomes, some of which we can imagine, were genuinely possible. That is just the insight that those who believe they have discovered a hard science allowing for prediction in the social world forget or deny. And yet they cannot foresee their own future. Tolstoy’s narrative resists this illusion by preserving the density of lived experience—the sense that at each moment multiple futures were genuinely possible. History, in this view, is not a line but a branching structure, most of whose branches vanish without record. AI and Narrative Certainty In the age of AI, this dream of certainty has taken a new and more persuasive form. Artificial intelligence can process vast datasets, identify patterns invisible to human perception, and generate explanations with remarkable coherence. Faced with such capabilities, it is tempting to believe that uncertainty can finally be overcome—that the future can be rendered legible in advance. But the deeper effect of AI lies in its ability to reorganize the past. Given sufficient data, AI systems can produce narratives that make outcomes appear coherent, even inevitable. They can identify correlations, reconstruct causal chains, and highlight what they regard as signs foreshadowing what followed. The result is not necessarily false, but it is selective. In this way, AI functions less as a predictor than as a powerful engine of narrative compression, reducing the apparent space of possibilities by presenting a single path as the path. What was once understood as a field of possible alternatives becomes retrospectively legible as an inevitable sequence, reducing many “futuribles” to one. The danger here lies in premature coherence, the sense that complexity has been resolved when it has only been reorganized into a persuasive form. A Compass Rather Than a Map Tools do more than extend thought; they reshape the environment in which thought occurs. AI, for instance, introduces a distinctive bias by generating what is statistically coherent, what resembles patterns derived from accumulated data. In an evolutionary system, what persists is not necessarily what is best in any absolute sense but what is most easily selected under prevailing conditions. AI changes those conditions in the intellectual world, lowering the cost of generating variations while subtly guiding selection toward what is already legible within its patterns. Over time, this can narrow the space of perceived possibilities by making them less visible, less accessible, less likely to be pursued. Certain forms of thought—those that resist simplification, that depend on sustained attention, or that emerge from direct engagement with the world—become comparatively fragile. What follows from Tolstoy’s ideas, on the other hand, is not that prediction is useless or that analysis should be abandoned, but rather that we must think in terms of a compass rather than a map. A map assumes a fixed terrain and a determinate path, while a compass provides direction without specifying the route. In a world of genuine contingency, only the latter is available. One can choose a bearing, but the path itself is discovered through movement. Orientation is not foresight. This is the force of Machado’s insight: The road is made by walking not because we lack information but because the path does not exist until it is created. To accept this is to adopt a different understanding of knowledge, not as a complete representation of what will happen, but as a capacity to respond intelligently to what does happen. It is inseparable from time, from attention, from the ability to recognize significance as it emerges. The impulse to eliminate contingency is understandable. Uncertainty is uncomfortable: It resists control and frustrates planning. But it is also what makes agency possible. A world in which everything could be predicted would be a world in which nothing could be otherwise. Action would lose its meaning, since outcomes would already be fixed. The openness of the future is not a defect in our knowledge, but a condition of human life. Artificial intelligence does not change this condition—but it can make us forget it. By rendering the past as if it had been inevitable, it invites us to imagine that the future is already written. Against this, one must insist on what Tolstoy and Machado understood in saying that the future remains unwritten, not because we have failed to compute it but because it does not yet exist."]]> tolstoy garysaulmorson julioottino antoniomachado fleeting alertness certainty uncertainty foresight prediction predictions contingency time variation selection local localism slow small complexity simplicity inevitability retrospection localknowledge knowledge irreverability science 2026 backshadowing sideshadowing coherence cohesion control human humanism planning plans narrativecompression future data ai artificialintelligence conditions possibility possibilities simplification orientation compass direction maps mapping liveexperience experience history action reason technocracy futuribles compasses canon humanness life living warandpeace bfskinner bronisławmalinowski karlmarx https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9d990d00b4a4/ The Bills That Destroyed Urban America — The 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Books 2026-03-30T18:49:42+00:00 https://www.versobooks.com/products/602-capital-city robertogreco 2019 gentrification samuelstein via:javierarbona realestate housing cities change landlords development us planning urbanplanning urbanchange capitalism government power https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:802dfd18d908/ On Remaining Porous: research as a lived practice – KoozArch 2026-03-29T01:54:09+00:00 https://www.koozarch.com/essays/on-remaining-porous-research-as-a-lived-practice robertogreco delanyboutkan federicanotari 2026 nieuweinstituut institutions porosity unschooling unresolved altgdp openstudioproject practice research method complexity acceleration ambiguity funding planning systems concersation slow koozarch cláudiobueno akilscafe-smith sethscafe-smith loumo manuelazechner marinaoteroverzier najiabagi siegrunsalmanian brandonlabelle katíatruijen learning howwelearn knowledge trust hosting kristajantowski reinaartvanhoe renlorenbritton conclusions collapse ogrupinteiron refusal deschooling füsuntretken chrislee lunabughanem danielfrotaabreu robinhartantohonggare proximity distance evaposas life living exposure vulnerability fellowships inbetween betweenness situated time linearity alinear collectivism closure deadlines extraction norms measurement companionship pace disagreement justification burnout everyday timelines evaluation possibility deliverables progression progress accumulation hospitality unfinished temporary ephemerality productivity exhaustion inbetweenness between https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0d87a9893e64/ Reclaiming the Road: Mobility Justice beyond Complete Streets, by David L Prytherch (2025) 2026-03-22T01:46:49+00:00 https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517916459/reclaiming-the-road/ robertogreco cities streets cars mobility mobilityjustice justice 2025 roadways walking bikes biking pedestrians safety politics policy equity access accessibility transportation transit davidprytherch community urbanplanning urbanism urban covid-19 pandemic coronavirus us parklets socialspace planning sidewalks bikelanes nyc bodton losangeles portland oregon via:javierarbona https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:46e7b074eead/ Champions of Apathy | Commonweal Magazine 2026-02-10T22:46:58+00:00 https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/champions-apathy robertogreco henrysnow politics economics christianity 2026 neoliberalism catholicism catholicchurch javiermilei popefrancis friedrichhayek friedrichvonhayek ludwigvonmises murrayrothbard libertarianism capitalism compassion empathy albertjaynock newtestament bible herbertspencer policy government governance jesuits socialism reason intention deliberation society engelbertdollfuss fascism planning kensianism johnmaynardkeynes williamfbuckley coldwar totalitarianism russellkirk us uk williamwinwoodreade god farright rightwing servitude labor work workers class inequality internationalism williamrusher apartheid wilhelmröpke 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Here’s why it has modern resonances 2026-01-22T06:55:09+00:00 https://theconversation.com/a-1930s-movement-wanted-to-merge-the-us-canada-and-greenland-heres-why-it-has-modern-resonances-252587 robertogreco via:javierarbona technocracy technocrats elonmusk donaldtrump greenland doge 1930s history management mexico us canada henrysmyth howardscott technicalalliance automation economics economy capitalism socialism abundance stability fairness corruption scientificmanagement governance government consumption production centralplanning mechanization labor sustainability joshuahaldeman tesla spacex neuralink avs marscolonization colonialism colonization freemarket planning singapore china society https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:71cd42eb5936/ Everything Was Already AI - YouTube 2026-01-09T19:34:30+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km2bn0HvUwg robertogreco ai artificialintelligence unlearningeconomics llms evolution context language naturalselection economics capitalism economy culture slop aislop marketing film filmmaking music freemarkets friedrichhayek markets behavior circulareconomy adaptation morality generativeai privateequity technology information arvindnarayanan sayashkapoor dandavies graceblakeley timo'reilly elonmusk openai chatgpt stockmarket herbertsimon jamescscott seeinglikeastate data stevekeen markschatzker decisionmaking prediction nathantankus accounting benjaminkuipers institutions culturaltechnologies states edzitron geoffreyhinton alexanderavila commodification timcook markzuckerberg peterthiel satisficing satisfaction loxalmaxima culturaltechnology simplicity massproduction familiarity complexity exploitation finance conventionalwisdom experimentation trevornoah jeromepowell communication interpretation languages conformity bubbles aibubble lossiness idiosyncrasy art humanity enshittification chatbots bots media corporations corporatism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f6f026e3046d/ Reshaping the City | Samuel Stein | The New York Review of Books 2025-11-22T20:21:39+00:00 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/11/20/reshaping-the-city-key-to-the-city-zoning/ robertogrecoTo be sure, zoning is not the only tool that matters. History, time, wealth, geography, and countless other factors will shape how communities evolve and develop. But while good zoning is not sufficient, it is necessary. Most important, it’s something that we control. And that makes it the key to building the cities and towns that we long for. This disclaimer is itself necessary but insufficient. Zoning may be what American cities control, but that is largely because their power over so much else has been stripped away by federal and state policy and budget reforms. The high point of American planning was likely the New Deal, when government not only directed private capital but built new social infrastructure on a monumental scale. The historian Joel Schwartz has called the 1930s in New York City “a decade where everyone dabbled at planning.” Advocates for a Green New Deal seek to revive this era of decisive state action and implicitly critique the notion that zoning is the pinnacle of planning. American planning is so tethered to zoning in large part because it is the last option available. Sure, it might be better for cities to build mass social housing, but with the resources they have, an upzoning will do. Yes, it might be best to build high-speed rail lines and streetcars across the nation, but reducing parking mandates is a start. Certainly we would like to rebuild large urban commons for community farming, but for now we can at least relax rules against keeping chickens and bees. To move beyond these limited horizons, we need politics: political movements of organized people fighting for their interests and contesting those who exploit them. Rezoning should be a component of those politics, but it cannot be their sum. Even if it were, any major rezoning effort is sure to encounter resistance. Reshaping the city takes power, not just policy."]]> samuelstein 2025 cities urban urbanism planning urbanplanning development deregulation zoning reform housing yimby yimbys yimbyism ezraklein derekthompson abundance abundancenetwork abundancemovement via:javierarbona california gavinnewsom ericadams nyc democrats affordability zohranmamdani thepowerbroker sarabronin sanfrancisco policy houston nimby nimbyism nimbys property privatization rentcontrol publicowership publichousing theastergates highline upzoning rezoning vacancies power greennewdeal construction urbandevelopment joelschwartz hartford poverty inequality population demographics pittsburgh tenants minneapolis abundanceagenda https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9d4853d837d9/ Fighting San Francisco's Manhattanization with Tim Redmond - YouTube 2025-10-08T20:56:00+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHMGb-dLfOU&t=1s robertogreco sanfrancisco timredomnd joelengardio daniellurie doomloop doomloopdispatch crime 2025 yimby yimbyism yimbys nimby nimbyism transit publictransit infrastructure housing scottwiener recalls politics policy displacement rentcontrol media urbanurbanism urbanplannign denisty elections inequality taxes taxation eisenhower richardnixon history dwightdeisenhower construction profit profits marhetrateghousing vancouver britishcolumbia zoning aiboom aibubble artificialintelligence ai affordability opeanai chatgpt kevinjones dscotmiller salesforce speculation displacment ronaldreagan homelessness homeless gentrification socialsafetynet sros redevelopment neoliberalism economics california us publichousing 1960s developers housingcrisis affrodability nyc latecapitalism latestagecapitalism billclinton joebiden barackobama race racism reaganism irs data coyotemedia soleilho planning vienna socialhousing donaldtrump taxrate stockholm cities finance socialism universityofcalifornia wealth socialservices publicgood productivi https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:cef0764ac7f4/ Actual Abundance with Isabella Weber, Malcolm Harris, Paul Williams · The Dig 2025-07-25T05:50:41+00:00 https://thedigradio.com/podcast/actual-abundance-w-isabella-weber-malcolm-harris-paul-williams/ robertogreco isabellaweber malcolmharris paulwilliams 2025 thedig danieldenvir abundance abundancenetwork ezraklein derekthompson neoliberalism growth trickledowneconomics economics yimby yimbyism yimbys media socialmedia upzoning housing liberalism greenenergy energy deregulation capitalism transportation medicine healthcare china publicfinance planning centrism radicalcentrism policy moderates left berniesanders zoning investment power abundancemovement regulation accelerationism progressivism technosolutionism trickledown abundanceagenda https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e92155ec5f38/ How to redraw a city - 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Clancy Wilmott, Alexis E Wood, 2024 2025-02-23T17:01:16+00:00 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/02637758241263205 robertogreco 2024 maps mapping cartography gis basemaps clancywilmott alexiswood westoakland geography politics planning architecture homeless homelessness erasure terrainfirma urban urbanism urbanplanning woodstreetcommons https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5ed919bbdf01/ Urban Lowlands: A History of Neighborhoods, Poverty, and Planning, by Steven Moga (2020) 2025-02-20T03:24:57+00:00 https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/U/bo51204053.html robertogreco geography cities urban urbanism poverty econpmics stevenmoga 2020 via:javierarbona harlem nyc nashville losangeles saintepaul swedehollow lowlands landscape planning urbanplanning https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c2baecb67550/ To Ease Parenting Burdens, We Need Better Housing and Street Designs, Too - Bloomberg 2025-02-04T00:03:45+00:00 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-31/to-ease-parenting-burdens-we-need-better-housing-and-street-designs-too robertogreco alexandralange urban urbanism children parents parenting 2024 independence resilience darbysaxbe psychology builtenvironment cities transit transportation cars density parks playgrounds cohousing courtyards planning urbanplanning taragoddard environment schools schoolyards childhood parenthood jacquelinenesi play walkability slowstreets publicspace civics autonomy helicopterparenting sidewalks shade outdoors mobility adolescence youth helicopterparents https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:60aeb73801b2/ What Wendell Berry Wants | The New Republic 2025-01-27T00:34:14+00:00 https://newrepublic.com/article/148137/wendell-berry-wants robertogreco wendellberry 2018 environment activism coletteshade environmentalism conservation capitalism action anthropocene mysticism movements srahleonard politics markbittman competition community class displacement dispossession alyssabattistoni greennewdeal defeatism local kindness land ryancooper ubi universalbasicincome government climatechange globalwarming fossilfuels planning bureaucracy economics https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:328a55850607/ Urban Reinventions: San Francisco’s Treasure Island – UH Press 2024-12-22T20:51:32+00:00 https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/urban-reinventions-san-franciscos-treasure-island/ robertogreco sanfrancisco treasureisland 2017 1937 1938 1939 1940 ggie goldengateinternationalexhibition history ww2 wwii yerbabuenaisland military cities planning urbanplanning architecture geography environment urban urbanism urbandesign design lynnehoriuchi javierarbona cgreigcrysler lindseydillon markgillem tanusankalia lisaschrenk andrewshanken johnstehlin richardwalker soil law legal land baybridge bridges segregation navy toxicity ecotopia utopia engineering landfill landfills bayarea fairgrounds fairs worldsfairs radioactivity https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7cabb3835260/ Democratic Dealignment with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor · The Dig 2024-11-23T18:27:56+00:00 https://thedigradio.com/podcast/democratic-dealignment-w-keeanga-yamahtta-taylor/ robertogreco 2024 keeanga-yamahttataylor elections donaldtrump kamalaharris barackobama joebiden democrats reform technocracy continuity economics statusquo 2016 2020 2019 politics us inequality workingclass elitism billclinton neoliberalism populism classconflict welfarestate policy berniesanders danieldenvir smugness housing inflation deathsofdespair race racism blacklivesmatter left whiteprivilege virutuesignaling identitypolitics leftism solidarity knightsoflabor scottwalker iww opposition resistance hostility project2025 governance planning intolerance establishment deepstate government socialmedia online internet web deathpenalty policiebrutality discrimination border borders immigration policereform flipflopping fracking lizcheney iraqwar dickcheney 2008 cynicism history atlanta nyc suppression encampments colleges universities chicago philadelphia debate education politicaleducation copcity culture organizing politicalparties democracy thirdparties ralphnader dsa workingfamiliesparty hustleculture passiveincome cr https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:868e02652842/ Automation & The Future of Subways - YouTube 2024-11-16T23:11:55+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pke3OnztBi8 robertogreco rmtransit mobility automation publictransit transportation transit 2024 avs robotaxis trains maintenance emissions efficiency cities urban urbandesign planning urbanplanning urbanism walking bikes biking landuse weather climate airports rail railways automatedtransit subways syndey paris copenhagen nyc sanfranciso montreal dallas atlanta hyperloop affordability space london dlr technology osaka railsystems railnetworks toronto lyon vancouver barcelona singapore buses britishcolumbia roads highways freeways kualalumpur doha rennes https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e9ca60f69091/ American Suburbs Are a Horror Movie and We’re the Protagonists 2024-09-27T23:27:39+00:00 https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2022/1/13/american-suburbs-are-a-horror-movie-and-were-the-protagonists robertogrecosuburbs suburbia us shinashayesteh 2022 architecture photography development walking disability disabilities isolation uncanniness uncertainty parking cars neighborhoods health community communities business environment walkability mobility urbanplanning planning landscape stroads well-being austin bancars wellbeing https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4326f8307f18/ Cars Have Fucked Up This Country Bad - by Hamilton Nolan 2024-09-11T00:53:59+00:00 https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/cars-have-fucked-up-this-country robertogreco cars us cities urban urbanism urbanplanning hamiltonnolan 2024 janejacobs development roads planning roadways infrastructure gridlock traffic qualityoflife land nyc sanfrancisco neworleans cleveland sprawl urbansprawel suburbs suburbansprawl texas tampa philadelphia chicago bancars nola https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:316c11843f95/ Metropolitan Transportation Commission | MTC is the transportation planning, financing and coordinating agency for the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area. 2024-09-08T02:09:35+00:00 https://mtc.ca.gov/ robertogreco sanfrancisco bayarea transportation transit publictransit planning https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:6457c8777495/ Control Everything: On Hartmut Rosa’s “The Uncontrollability of the World” | Los Angeles Review of Books 2024-03-02T06:48:06+00:00 https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/control-everything-on-hartmut-rosas-the-uncontrollability-of-the-world/ robertogreco hartmutrosa uncontrollability control slow pauld'ambrosio 2021 philosophy pace resonance life living nature experience presence charlestaylor artleisure leisurearts small unschooling planning https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:027d9b146285/ Why We Can’t Build Better Cities (ft.Not Just Bikes) - YouTube 2024-02-23T21:19:07+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lHNkUjR9nM robertogreco cities urban urbanism rural countryside 2024 philosophytube stevenconn farming environment bikes biking place urbanplanning planning howwesee suburbs notjustbikes jasonslaughter estheraddley saraahmed bernadetteatuahene davidbanks adambarnett judithbutler alicecapelle lisachamberlain samueldelaney garethfearn hannahfry edwardglaeser davidharvey tiffanyhsu franklaundry davidlawler eishamaharasingham-shah michaelnaas fearguso'sullivan elliotsang chrisstanford darintenev trashfuture joywhite kimwillsher suburbia us uk canada cars cardependence infrastructure taxes roads parking strongtowns financing maintenance sustainability behavior privilege london gentrification creativity capitalism race racism racialviolence entrepreneurship wealth housing detroit culture homes development police policing class contact networking neighborhoods neighbors nyc timessquare manhattan loneliness publicspace genz generationz conformity crime criminalization sexworkers homeless homelessness anxiety fear homogenization qanon conspi https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7d8546e03f21/ More Lanes are (Still) a Bad Thing - YouTube 2024-02-04T21:32:42+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHZwOAIect4 robertogreco notjustbikes transportation cars freeways losangeles houston seoul arlington 2024 traffic congestion trains transit oslo cities urban urbanism nicoleconlan jasonslaughter matthewkrol chuckmarohn indueceddemand austin texas california policy highways lanes segregation planning stevemould bikes biking seattle copenhagen wsdot pugetsound netherlands buses cycling washingtondc pedestrians safety qualityoflife https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7a8b8511791b/ Celebrating the Diversity of Indigenous Homes - YouTube 2024-01-25T05:14:22+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qP4BMQ1lqo robertogreco architecture design indigeneity indigenous 2024 perspective indigenousdesign placeknowing place values pueblopeople chacocanyon chichénitzá planning sevengenerations nature harmony machupicchu morethanhuman eurocentrism multispecies turtleisland longevity sustainability environment trailoftears land lifeways ethniccleansing indianremovalact assimilation diné navajo urbanization reservations urban culture community hudhousing hud 1960s apaches housing homes landgrabs history infrastructure communitybuilding society romancolosseum conspiracytheories technology knowledge style function form posturing creativity innovation ego situated santafe newmexico gentrification capitalism franklloydwright apache https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4e668a30e6a9/ How to Keep Time - The Atlantic [bookmarking for Season 5, "How to Keep Time" - this podcast covered other topics before that.] 2024-01-23T05:11:04+00:00 https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/how-to-build-a-happy-life/ robertogreco time clocks ianbogost beccarashid 2023 2024 podcasts psychology productivity us age aging social rest work busyness control future anxiety idleness oliverburkeman hobbies kieransetiya listening zen mindfulness happiness presence leisure laziness neerupaharia melissamazmanian ignaciosánchezprado waiting slow slowness culture society alexsoojung-kimpang downtime boredom jannalevin patience charanranganath sarahmanguso behavior addiction actions neuroscience mentalhealth luxury scarcity status italy humblebragging thorsteinveblen veblengoods socialmobility diamonds money self-worth self-importance compulsion overscheduling plans planning spontaneity avoidance multitasking taskswitching unschooling schooliness balance presentationofself guilt parenting timemanagement capitalism overwork stress success failure deadlines life living anticipation optimism pleasure satisfaction erinreid west burnout gender eviatarzerubavel mothers benedictinemonks monks spirituality industrialrevolution freetime scheduling calenda https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:536b77c372f2/ RESONANCE AND ALIENATION. TWO MODES OF EXPERIENCING TIME? - YouTube 2024-01-10T07:07:08+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57hqmqyQfdk robertogreco time resonance alienation experience hartmutrosa 2019 socialacceleration acceleration via:daniellucas heidegger aggression temporality temporalconsciousness consciousness life living contemporaries contemporality biography perspective being planning situated linearity history epochs flexibility adaptability past present future identity philosophy psychology society institutions culture growth technology capitalism latecapitalism economics slow speed socialchange competition optimization productivity work labor rush hustle progress depression burnout power control canon vibrance families relationships presence small alinear linear running calm calming clocks synchronicity bodies sleep attention place latestagecapitalism nonlinear https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4800150fbe9f/ The Santiago Boys 2023-07-28T05:17:08+00:00 https://the-santiago-boys.com/ robertogreco chile history podcasts 2023 internet salvadorallende coldwar pinochet coup evgenymorozov cybersyn staffordbeer socialism economics technology georgehwbush un bigtech egalitarianism cia us johnmccone 1970s 1960s elections cuba cheguevara fidelcastro mir mapo education marxism cybernetics itt coca-cola dupont bankofamerica dowchemical generalelectric fordmotorrs chitelcorichardnixon henrykissinger democracy left darktech psyops surveillance mobilization control guatemala unitedfruitcompany santiago patriaylibertad facists authoritarianism chicagoboys fernandoflores utopia radicalism instability information informationsystems computers computing liberty freedom joangarcés netwworks computernetworks telex santiagoboys latinamerica management hierarchy horizontality autonomy bananarepublics orlandoletelier complexity planning guibonsiepe technocracy scientism elitism empowerment labor managerialism culture society consultants science technocrats bureaucracy golpe golpemilitar ge https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d8c7d0f6e8a2/ · Alan Jacobs 2023-03-20T07:32:31+00:00 https://social.ayjay.org/2023/03/15/heres-another-one.html robertogreco alanjacobs 2023 capitalism anarchism wendellberry christianity liberalism conservatism luddites organizing progress progressivism technology sociery property marycarrington edwardgoldsmith gretathunberg standingagainstprogress revolution planning rogerscruton craigcalhoun class classstruggle epthompson karlmarx marxism oligarchy zapatistas jamescscott radicals radicalism economics moraleconomy ideology culture scale small industrialization paulkingsnorth accessibility sustainability theology belief religion zapatismo luddism emilianozapata chiapas mexico autonomy indigenous indigeneity ezln https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:16f6dcb1c353/ Know Your Enemy: On Barbara Ehrenreich, with Alex Press and Gabriel Winant - Dissent Magazine 2023-02-13T15:06:45+00:00 https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/know-your-enemy-on-barbara-ehrenreich robertogreco barbaraehrenreich 2022 feminism class professionalmanagerialclass labor populism matthewsitman samadler-bell gabrielwinant orencass sohrabahmari 2016 2020 elections johnehrenreich organizing workingclass agency dsa socialism alexpress gender healthcare nursing minimumwage academia gradschool unions professionals harrybraverman capitalism society socialcontrol deskilling taylorism sociology mariosavio left marxism economics davidrieff klaustheweleit rosaluxemburg johnjudis capital control antoniogramsci schools education universities colleges hegemony teaching howweteach dignity autonomy classconflict radicalism radicalization middleclass culture entertainment neoliberalism liberalism state technocrats management administration progressivism newleft poverty classism ronaldreagan billclinton status welfare socialsafetynet elizabethwarren bourgeoisie socialmobility inequality yuppies adjuncts catherineliu conflict austerity solidarity work caring planning learning healing pmc messiness disorder knowyourenemy https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:13e32ff3c4f5/ Cities After... 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CityLab 2018-12-27T03:36:21+00:00 https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/12/kid-friendly-policy-tirana-urban-planning/578164/ robertogreco tirana via:derek albania urban urbanism srg children cities planning urbanplanning safety mobility https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:bf3f59f1e30a/ A RESPONSE TO ABOLITIONIST PLANNING: THERE IS NO ROOM FOR ‘PLANNERS’ IN THE MOVEMENT FOR ABOLITION | Progressive City | International 2018-08-10T19:41:55+00:00 https://www.progressivecity.net/single-post/2018/08/09/A-RESPONSE-TO-ABOLITIONIST-PLANNING-THERE-IS-NO-ROOM-FOR-%E2%80%98PLANNERS%E2%80%99-IN-THE-MOVEMENT-FOR-ABOLITION robertogreco abolition deshonaydozier via:javierarbona 2018 planning edwardjones policing homeless homelessness ruthwilsongilmore reform jacknorton borders capitalism colonialism donaltrump professionalization unfreedoms freedom liberation planners race racism liberalism socialjustice skidrow losangeles garyblasi forreststuart https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:cfa65dd0699b/ Engaging Children in the Park Planning Process | Health and Wellness | Parks and Recreation Magazine | NRPA 2018-08-10T19:09:02+00:00 https://www.nrpa.org/parks-recreation-magazine/2018/august/engaging-children-in-the-park-planning-process/ robertogreco children parks planning urbanplanning urban urbanism clementlau 2018 howto https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:dfdc93096bc7/ LA 2028 Olympics: Lessons from the 1984 summer games - Curbed LA 2018-07-27T20:08:41+00:00 https://la.curbed.com/2018/7/19/17548932/la-olympics-1984-2028-summer-games robertogrecolosangeles 2028 olympics 2018 urban urbanism 1984 alissaalker alexandralange jennachandler design planning urbanplanning elijahchiland patricksisson https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:132a3732967c/ How He's Using His Gifts | Akilah S. Richards [Episode 12] 2018-07-12T18:12:17+00:00 http://www.akilahsrichards.com/heartwood/ robertogreco akilahrichards anthonygalloway schools education unschooling deschooling gifted juliacordero race schooling self-directed self-directedlearning lcproject openstudioproject children howwelearn learning praise comparison alternative grades grading curiosity libraries systemsthinking progressive reading howweread assessment publicschools elitism accessibility class highered highereducation colleges universities unpaidinternships studentdebt testing standardization standardizedtesting agilelearning community collaboration sfsh tcsnmy freeschools scrum cv relationships communities process planning documentation adulting agilelearningcenters https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2c67ca953999/ Cory Doctorow: Things that happen in Silicon Valley and also the... 2018-07-07T23:30:24+00:00 https://mostlysignssomeportents.tumblr.com/post/175651884905/things-that-happen-in-silicon-valley-and-also-the robertogreco ussr russia economics siliconvalley disruption politics indoctrination centralization policy 2018 currency planning conformity conformism drudgery work labor humor tesla elonmusk jeffbezos wageslavery failure henrykissinger us government governance ideology experience class collateraldamage elitism antontroynikov consequences space utopia workmanship quality accountability productivity falsification workplace colonization https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b62340bd5455/ How to build a book: Notes from an editorial bricoleuse | HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory: Vol 7, No 3 2017-12-24T19:44:15+00:00 http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.14318/hau7.3.020 robertogreco writing editing craft 2017 priyanelson variation conformity innovation citation anthropology srg neologisms socialsciences academia revision publishing serendipity details planning https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:02f1195efca9/ Gautam Bhan: A bold plan to house 100 million people | TED Talk | TED.com 2017-12-13T06:25:49+00:00 https://www.ted.com/talks/gautam_bhan_a_bold_plan_to_house_100_million_people robertogreco urbanization urban urbanism housing slums settlements india gautambhan 2017 eviction land property homes place cities urbanplanning planning thailand informal inequality growth squatting class https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4b526580c344/ Ephemeral Urbanism: Cities in Constant Flux - YouTube 2017-10-22T18:07:14+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzEcVEFdIHs robertogreco urbanism urban cities ephemerality ephemeral 2016 rahulmehrotra felipevera henrynbauer cristianpinoanguita religion celebration transaction trade economics informal formal thailand indi us dominicanrepublic cochella burningman fikaburn southafrica naturaldisaters refugees climatechange mozambique haiti myanmar landscape naturalresources extraction mining chile indonesia military afghanistan refuge jordan tanzania turkey greece macedonia openness rigidity urbandesign urbanplanning planning adhoc slums saudiarabia hajj perú iraq flexibility unfinished completeness sustainability ecology mobility türkiye https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:76144fff16c5/ Finnish Teachers Opt for Less Structured Start of School Year - The Atlantic 2017-08-10T04:09:51+00:00 https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/497306/ robertogreco finland sfsh schools education pedagogy howwetech teaching control planning student-led looseness cv 2016 timwalker https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7f19d844eca4/ How a (nearly) zero-carbon conference can be a better conference | University of California 2017-07-19T22:59:07+00:00 https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/how-nearly-zero-carbon-conference-can-be-better-conference robertogreco conferences carbonneutrality events planning 2017 johnforan virtual environment sustainability teaching pedagogy sfsh airtravel climatechange climate climatejustice climateneutrality carbonfootprint kenhiltner internet web online access accesibility community howto ucsb highered education highereducation academia zero-carbonconferences carbonemissions travel globalwarming flights airplanes aviation decarbonization https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:84106967c94b/ LMU Magazine: Jumping Time 2017-04-01T00:50:56+00:00 http://magazine.lmu.edu/articles/jumping-time/ robertogreco lynellgeorge michaelmassenburg johnoutterbridge art music jazz 2016 picoiyer chance serendipity planning plans possibility certainty uncertainty presence losangeles https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d033215c7d33/ A Boom Interview: Mike Davis in conversation with Jennifer Wolch and Dana Cuff – Boom California 2017-01-02T03:42:57+00:00 https://boomcalifornia.com/2016/12/29/a-boom-interview-in-conversation-with-jennifer-wolch-and-dana-cuff/ robertogreco mikedavis 2016 interviews economics california sanfrancisco losangeles henrygeorge urbanism urban suburbia suburbs jenniferolch danacuff fauxurbanism hipsters downtown property ownership housing populism progressive progressivism reynerbanham planning urbanplanning citybeautiful gentrification cities homeless homelessness michaelrotundi frankgehry richardlouv gangs sandiego friendship colinward thechildinthecity architecture fun discovery informal unprogrammed freedom capitalism china india england ireland famine optimism juliamonk children teens youth development realestate zoning sanbernardino sciarc https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0214769de100/ The Future of Cities – Medium 2016-12-25T07:02:13+00:00 https://medium.com/@oscarboyson/the-future-of-cities-ba4e26c807fe#.2zmgy274v robertogreco cities urban urbanplanning urbanism bikes biking cars singapore nyc losangeles janejacobs jangehl edwardglaeser mumbai tokyo regulation jaimelerner curitiba nantucketproject carloratti vickchan davidhertz hellesøholt rickyburdett laurenlockwood pabloviejo matiasechanove urbz janettesadik-khan abessmakki paragkhanna stangale jockinarputham slumdwellersinternational slums mortonkabell urbanization future planning oscarboyson mikelydon anthonygarcia danielbrook lucsante remkoolhaas dayansudjic rickyburdettsethsolomonow wadegraham charlesmontgomery matthewclaudeljeffspeck jonathanrose transportation publictransit transit housing construction development local small grassroots technology internet web online communications infrastructure services copenhagen sidewalks pedestrians sharing filmmaking film video taipei seoul santiago aukland songdo sydney london nairobi venice shenzhen 2016 sustainability environment population detroit making manufacturing buildings economics commutes commuting edglaeser https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e6ec120472b2/ Gallup: Zoning Is Reducing American Productivity And Making The Poor Poorer 2016-12-24T20:04:02+00:00 http://www.forbes.com/sites/rogervaldez/2016/12/07/zoning-reducing-american-productivity-and-making-the-poor-poorer/#27bbacb271db robertogrecoThe core problem with the housing market is that it is not allowed to function as a market at all. In a healthy market, an increase in demand for a product leads to a greater supply and prices stay the same. In housing markets, demand increases as new households are formed, which results from natural population growth and immigration. The problem is that new supply is massively restricted, leading to inflation (Page 98). Americans are facing, especially in cities, is housing scarcity that is pushing up prices and consuming their incomes. The money lost to higher prices is money not saved, not invested in new ventures, or education, or meeting other needs. People want to live and work and cities because that’s where the opportunity is; but the report found that zoning is making it harder for new people to live in cities. Here’s a devastating indictment of zoning (emphasis mine):
Local zoning boards and planning agencies have almost complete discretion over what gets built where, and they are under intense political pressure from homeowners’ associations and other groups to block development in high-priced, low-density areas for cultural and economic reasons. Culturally, homeowners clamor to preserve what they regard as the “character” of their communities, by which they mean things like traffic, the race and social status of their neighbors, and environmental amenities like green space and scenic views. Additionally, homeowners have strong economic interests in restricting the supply of housing in their neighborhood for two reasons: having more people, especially people with young children, requires a higher tax rate on property, and even more fundamentally, greater housing supply in their neighborhood lowers the value of their unit relative to the prevailing scarcity. Thus, even as housing prices increased, U.S. population density actually fell from 2000 to 2010 for metropolitan area residents as newer housing units were pushed further out into the distant suburbs (Page 99).
But here’s what Gallup doesn’t say: progressive political rhetoric and policies blaming developers and building owners for higher prices provides the political cover to enact these kinds of measures that actually hurt poor people. And this is truly the scandal of the last three decades, that incumbent single-family homeowners have used the suffering of poor people to argue for policies that benefit their own financial interests while making life worse for people with the fewest dollars to spend on housing in the city, the very people that they claim to be worried about. Gallup says it isn’t done but will be producing more detailed ideas on solutions. The housing solution will have to require that local politicians and officials stop implementing policies that appear redistributive at the expense of developers and landlords, but that only make things worse for people seeking housing (see Seattle Mayor Murray's Mandatory Inclusionary Zoning scheme). Ironically the fees and taxes wrung out of the production of much needed housing will only raise its price, funneling the money raised into a manifestly inefficient system of housing production. As Margaret Thatcher famously pointed out, all these apparently socialist policies using taxes, fees, and zoning do is make the “poor poorer” while ensuring current homeowners see themselves get richer and richer. [video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdR7WW3XR9c ]"]]> housing zoning 2016 inequality urban urbanism urbanplanning planning cities economics progressives margaretthatcher https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:fe97522ddffa/ Imaginary Cities: An Interview with Darran Anderson – RhysTranter.com 2016-10-31T01:39:08+00:00 https://rhystranter.com/2016/10/21/imaginary-cities-darran-anderson-interview/ robertogreco darrananderson urbanism architecture cities 2016 community society siegementality planning urban italocalvino space identity memory augmentedreality books writing interactivity interactive situationist urbanization ar dostoevsky https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:20ba475efa59/ Scratch Conference Live Webcast 2016-08-04T19:48:25+00:00 http://webcast.mit.edu/sum2016/scratch/1631/index-d1.html robertogreco scracth mitchresnick seymourpapert 2016 education learning hardfun sambaschools howwethink howwelearn constructionism making allsorts schools sfsh engagement coding programming mindstorms lego computers computing schooling internet web community communities play planning https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d48aaf9fc3dc/ Learning Despite School — LifeLearn — Medium 2016-07-27T23:22:33+00:00 https://medium.com/lifelearn/learning-despite-school-d0879be9464f#.6bwc28ncy robertogreco education unschooling deschooling learning informal informallearning schools social training finland play competition freeplay howwlearn howweteach teaching hobbies constructivism experimentation 2016 schedules time independence timemanagement planning criticalthinking accountability metacognition laotzu tarmotoikkanen competence motivation stress anxiety https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:eedb9590da74/ Jan Chipchase: Keynote on Vimeo 2016-07-20T03:58:40+00:00 https://vimeo.com/121939450 robertogrecoteams janchipchase 2015 studiod studiodurans design media criticism hype risk riskaversion ideo frogdesign risktaking designthinking innovation small scale replicability creativity legal longevity impact organizations relevance change sfsh bureaucracy corporations corporateamnesia money integrity ideals values sellouts changeagents socialimpact transparency storytelling commercialism consistency process planning replication predictability impromptu uncertainty notknowing lcproject openstudioproject cv experience pop-ups designresearch pop-upstudios democracy cohabitation decompression recalibration reflection memory peakexperience endexperience themeparks amusementparks doreenlorenzo carasilver schwe sellingout https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3dce8463c4e6/ We need to stop treating nonprofits the way society treats poor people | Nonprofit With Balls 2016-07-18T17:58:07+00:00 http://nonprofitwithballs.com/2016/07/we-need-to-stop-treating-nonprofits-the-way-society-treats-poor-people/ robertogreco nonprofit nonprofits 2016 funding foundations paulshoemaker fundraising restrictedfunding sustainability grantwriting philanthropicindustrialcomplex charitableindustrialcomplex money power control gratitude trust management administration leadership planning capitalism philanthropy charities charity https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1557974ed7d2/