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2:30 - Anime Face 
2:58 - Defining McMansion 
05:47 - 80s Architecture 
07:05 - Revival of Old Tastes 
20:51 - Agrarian High School 
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41:35 - Modern Opera 
45:18 - The Ring Cycle 
47:07 - Receptiveness in a Critic’s Heart 
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    <title>Millennials Are Killing Capitalism: The Revolt Eclipses Whatever The World Has to Offer with Idris Robinson</title>
    <dc:date>2026-04-04T18:20:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://millennialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/the-revolt-eclipses-all-the-world-has-to-offer-by-idris-robinson</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In this episode, we are joined by Idris Robinson to unpack his book, The Revolt Eclipses Whatever the World Has to Offer [https://massivebookshop.com/products/9781635902433?_pos=1&_sid=db620e222&_ss=r ], a searing meditation on race, revolt, civil war, and the psychic wreckage of American life.

Reflecting on the 2020 uprisings, Robinson challenges the myth of Black leadership, reframes racial violence through the lens of a “morbid libidinal economy,” and argues that revolution is as much a transformation of the human spirit as it is a political event. Drawing on the legacies of Black insurgency, Robinson interrogates liberalism, identity politics, and the hollowing out of American cities—while pondering on what it would take to make life human again in a society built to dehumanize. He argues that racial violence, especially spectacular acts of white supremacist brutality. cannot be adequately explained by frameworks like identity politics, intersectionality, or privilege theory. Instead, these acts emerge from repressed desires and psychic forces intrinsic to white supremacy. The 2020 uprisings, in this sense, exposed both emancipatory and repressive violence rooted in these deeper libidinal dynamics.

Robinson also reflects on his personal trajectory, from Occupy Wall Street through development as a theorist, where he grounds his meditation on revolt as humanizing forces. He argues that American capitalism produces profound isolation, psychic damage, and undead social beings, hollowed out by commodification. Uprisings momentarily restore humanity by breaking atomization and re‑creating collective meaning.
 
On strategy, Robinson challenges traditional socialist models of seizing the “means of production,” arguing instead that modern revolt must focus on logistics and infrastructure: transport hubs, electrical grids, supply chains, and urban circulation. He emphasizes blockades, control of space, and understanding the built environment as key to sustaining insurrection in a post‑industrial economy. We devote substantial attention to Robinson’s provocative argument that civil war is not a future possibility but a current condition in the United States. Drawing on classical theory, Black radical thought, and historical analogy, he frames civil war as the collision of public (political) and private (libidinal, racial, familial) spheres. While acknowledging its violence and trauma, Robinson argues that fracture and decentralization may paradoxically make revolutionary transformation more achievable, pointing to Reconstruction after the U.S. Civil War as the most emancipatory period in American history.

Idris Robinson is a philosopher from the New York hinterlands. For over a decade, he has written extensively on crisis and revolt. He is the author of The Revolt Eclipses Whatever the World Has to Offer (MIT Press / Semiotext(e)) and Escritos desde la tierra baldía (Irrupción Ediciones). He is currently an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Texas State University, where he is completing a monograph-length study on the progression of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s philosophy. He is currently undergoing a legal battle with TSU after the school violated his constitutional rights by ending his contract after he gave an off-campus Pro-Palestine talk [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/25/professor-texas-state-university-israel-palestine ]. 
 
If you like what we do and want to support our ability to have more conversations like this. Please consider becoming a Patron at patreon.com/millennialsarekillingcapitalism. You can do so for as little as a 1 Dollar a month. 
 
Links:

Order the book from Massive Bookshop
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IdrisRobinson.me 
https://idrisrobinson.me/

About Idris Robinson's case against Texas State University
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/25/professor-texas-state-university-israel-palestine

Support Idris Robinson's Legal Fund
https://www.givesendgo.com/GKRFR "]]></description>
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    <title>The Bills That Destroyed Urban America — The New Atlantis</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The planners dreamed of gleaming cities. Instead they brought three generations of hollowed-out downtowns and flight to the suburbs."

[See also:


"The Demise of Real Neighborhoods Is a Story of Finance"
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-demise-of-real-neighborhoods-is-a-story-of-finance

"America’s neighborhoods were once beautiful, unique, dense, and scaled for a communal life on foot. But obscure federal rules piling up over a century have made it nearly impossible for banks to finance new ones."]]]></description>
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    <title>Every Reason to Hate Cars - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-29T20:17:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umgi-CbaSRU</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["These Stupid Trucks are Literally Killing Us
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN7mSXMruEo

What is the "Correct" Speed Limit?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRbnBc-97Ps

Crossing the Street Shouldn't Be Deadly (but it is)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ByEBjf9ktY  

How to (Quickly) Build a Cycling City - Paris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI-1YNAmWlk

Cities Aren't Loud: Cars Are Loud
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTV-wwszGw8

I'm so Sick of this Lazy Excuse for Bad Cities (Weather)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXDP9WQe0io 

The Gym of Life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPUlgSRn6e0

Would You Fall for It? [ST08]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n94-_yE4IeU

Why We Won't Raise Our Kids in Suburbia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHlpmxLTxpw

Strong Towns Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJp5q-R0lZ0_FCUbeVWK6OGLN69ehUTVa

Suburbia is Subsidized: Here's the Math [ST07]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nw6qyyrTeI

America Always Gets This Wrong (when building transit)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnyeRlMsTgI

These Ugly Big Box Stores are Literally Bankrupting Cities
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7-e_yhEzIw

Parking Laws Are Strangling America | Climate Town
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUNXFHpUhu8 

City Beautiful
https://nebula.tv/citybeautiful
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGc8ZVCsrR3dAuhvUbkbToQ

Ray Delahanty | CityNerd
https://nebula.tv/citynerd
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfgtNfWCtsLKutY-BHzIb9Q  

---
References & Further Reading

Car harm: A global review of automobility's harm to people and the environment
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0966692324000267
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.20...

Crash Not Accident
https://crashnotaccident.com/

Life After Cars Book, from the War on Cars Podcast
https://www.lifeaftercars.com/

Segregation by Design
https://www.segregationbydesign.com/

Rave DJ mixes available at djnumbernine.com

The number of references far exceeds the maximum length that YouTube allows in descriptions, but you can access the full list of references on Nebula or at this link:
https://notjustbikes.com/references/carharm.txt

This video uses stock footage from Getty Images and other licensed sources.
No generative AI or AI voices were used in the making of this video

Script by Nicole Conlan and Jason Slaughter
Thanks to Simon Clark, Henry (The Closer Look), münecat, and Ray Delahanty (CityNerd) for voicing quotes.

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Chapters
0:00 Intro
1:38 Car Harm
3:00 Vehicular violence
6:23 Air pollution
8:25 Other pollutants and tyres
11:21 Noise & light pollution
13:08 Climate change
14:10 Sedentary lifestyle & isolation
16:10 Motonormativity
17:12 Advertising and propaganda
19:04 Disproportionate harm
20:15 Children
23:15 People with disabilities
24:39 Low-income households
27:58 The costs of automobility
30:19 Parking
32:19 Housing
33:05 Infrastructure costs
36:18 Land use and habitat destruction
38:20 Small businesses and retail
39:21 Everyone hates cars
41:02 Reducing car harm
42:25 People want fewer cars
43:59 Concluding thoughts
46:17 Nebula & Day Pass"]]></description>
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High IQ high discipline voluntary extreme poverty is an underexplored lifestyle. Seems to me much more virtuous than the Connecticut suburban lawnmowing contest."

[via:
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    <title>Alexis Madrigal: &quot;To Know A Place&quot; - Social Science Matrix</title>
    <dc:date>2025-12-28T20:58:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://live-ssmatrix.pantheon.berkeley.edu/research-article/alexis-madrigal/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Recorded on December 4, 2025, this video features a Social Science Matrix Distinguished Lecture, “To Know a Place,” presented by journalist and author Alexis Madrigal.

Madrigal has long explored how technology, culture, and environment shape our lives; from his work co-founding The COVID Tracking Project to his books Powering the Dream and The Pacific Circuit. In this talk, Madrigal turns his attention to the question of how we come to know a place. Drawing on his background as a reporter, writer, and thinker of cities, landscapes, and histories, he explores different ways of writing about and understanding place, revealing how perspective, memory, and narrative inform the stories we tell about the world around us. 

About the Speaker

Alexis Madrigal is a journalist in Oakland, California. He is the co-host of KQED’s current affairs show, Forum, and a contributing writer at The Atlantic, where he co-founded The COVID Tracking Project. Previously, he was the editor-in-chief of Fusion and a staff writer at Wired. His latest book, The Pacific Circuit, came out in March 2025 from MCD x FSG. He is the proprietor of the Oakland Garden Club, a newsletter for people who like to think about plants. Madrigal authored the book Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology. He has been a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley’s Information School and UC Berkeley’s Center for the Study of Technology, Science, and Medicine as well as an affiliate with Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. He was born in Mexico City, grew up in rural Washington State, and went to Harvard.

Podcast and Transcript

Watch the panel above or on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URcgwVjoxbE ]. Or listen to the audio recording via the Matrix Podcast below (or on Apple Podcasts)."]]></description>
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    <title>I live in the Future - by Catherine Liu - CLiuAnon</title>
    <dc:date>2025-12-16T05:49:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://cliuanon.substack.com/p/i-live-in-the-future</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Irvine is the accelerationist's dream"

...

"It is beige, perfectly planned, not a leaf or succulent out of place. I used to complain about how deadening it is to live in a billionaire’s vision of perfection: Donald Bren’s, not Donald Trump’s — but my complaints have grown complaints. I don’t want to hear them any more.

Every other place in the world seems seductive dirty and uncomfortable after Irvine. If you are going to be a tech hub, don’t try for bohemianism like Seattle or San Francisco. I wonder how people fall in love here. I remember being in love in different cities. You’re in a state of sensuous transport when you’re in love. The unevenness of the ground underfoot can feel like the slope of your lover’s shoulder. What can you do with love in Irvine? OK…I’m being stupid agian.

The weather in Irvine is incredible, all year round. June gloom is romantic. But we get more sunshine than Newport Beach, our whiter, and slightly wealthier neighbor that is still run by the Irvine Company’s architects and designers.

When two concrete plates on the sidewalk become uneven, some one comes to spray paint the edges a bright red so that you are aware of the gap and won’t trip or knock your baby in its $1000 stroller on your way to one of the hundreds of pocket parks that are tucked into the carefully manicured underarms of the dozens of planned communities in America’s safest city. Every square inch of the city is managed and controlled for your comfort and pleasure and for Donald Bren’s profit.

Nick Land should live in Irvine. It’s pitiless with regard to its less fortunate neighbors. The housing costs are prohibitive. They’re inhuman. Invisible walls keep less fortunate people out. Hardworking immigrants with a lot of money now dominate Irvine’s population. The white people are fleeing to less competitive school districts, which only makes the schools even more desirable.

Irvine is technocratically efficient. The Santa Ana river runs through Irvine to the Pacific. Somehow, they have tamed the river to be Irvine’s exclusive water source. The Irvine Water District is a model of urban water infrastructure. The IRWD recycles sewer water for irrigation.So that people don’t drink this reclaimed water, all the irrigation pipes in Irvine are purple. Irvine purple — an internationally known shade among water managers. Of course Irvine homeowners and renters wouldn’t be at risk of imbibing such ambiguously sourced H2O. The Latin American and Mexican gardeners who are constantly at work trimming the decorative palms, manzanitas and Tuscan cypresses would be most at risk, but they are experienced with Irvine. They bring Igloo coolers of waters strapped by bungee cords to the backs of their trucks. Their trucks stand out from the fleets of Lexuses, Teslas and Porsche Cayennes that dot our landscape, but we don’t see the trucks anymore. They’re invisible. Nick Land would like this. We only see shiny things.

Irvine has a lot of planned open space. You can reach the Pacific Northwest trail along the veterbrae of hills that the Irvine Company preserved in order to make its most exclusive neighborhoods even more expensive and desirable. Allegedly Saudi Princes have bought homes in the most expensive gated communities. Their children and wives summer there in perfect safety and cool ocean breezes.

Many planned communities want to be Irvine, but they cannot match its geographical good fortune.

But beige Spanish hacienda style architecture signals luxury and taste for Donald Bren and his imitators. The colors you can paint your house in my community are carefully controlled. Any color that cannot be found in human excretions is not permitted: poopy browns, urine yellows, all shades of mucous beige tending toward green, milky spermy whites, these are permitted and even welcomed.

[photo]

This beauty is priced at a cool $3 million. Don’t worry, I live in a planned community for professors, so even though the houses near me look exactly like the one above, they fetch maybe 50% on a closed market to other UC Irvine employees.

I’m leaning into Irvine these days. What do I want? Rich parents who could have put a down payment on a house in Los Angeles for me twenty years? A job in a walkable city that is equally unaffordable without neighborhoods that offer country club level amenities? More money to move out of my gilded cage? Isn’t everyone trapped? I just happen to be trapped in the future.

I am its product now. My nostalgia for something else is the nostalgia of a temporally displaced person, a silly bohemian who couldn’t afford bohemia and fell into the lap of every Chinese immigrant’s dream place. Irvine keeps getting better because better and better Chinese restaurants keep opening up in this city. The Boba shops keep getting cuter and cuter because East Asian immigrants need good milk tea.

There is no public transportation to speak of, and none that is usable coming very soon, thank Odin. Who wouldn’t want to live in a place where the temperature is perfectly attuned to the human body?

Palo Alto with its fake downtown cannot match Irvine’s lack of a center, lack of pretension, lack of reference to any other urban agglomeration that ever existed: it has no relationship to Rome, Pompei, Xian, Chicago or even Los Angeles, which sprawled out of control and in waves of booms and busts.

Irvine is completely its own thing: its ‘villages’ only refer to other ‘villages’ in Irvine. Its neighborhoods are compromises between an urban planner and a real estate speculator. Its houses are not well built or well designed, but they are so utterly comfortable. Irvine is completely and utterly anonymous, prosperous, rich, decentered. It is the inhuman future of a frictionless Internet made flesh. It is Artificial Intelligence embodied. It has crunched all domestic architectural styles of 20th century America and remade them in the most profitable, most efficient, least offensive style possible. It is a city designed for the future of the end of history: even if history passes it by, it will continue to shine like a beacon indicating what the United States could be if it could be designed for a happy population of philistine millionaires, serviced by low wage workers. Every wealthy neighborhood in America just wants to be managed by the Irvine Company. Every bohemian neighborhood wants to refute it. Irvine is more than a city: it is anti-humanist, anti-liberal and so low key futuristic you don’t even notice its accelerationist reality."]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2025-11-14T06:24:11+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[[via:
https://caterina.substack.com/p/the-free-for-all

"To convince you to read Ian Nairn, the great sui generis British architectural critic, I give you the front cover and back cover blurbs of the re-released Outrage, which details Nairn’s voyage through Britain’s suburbia—what he calls, “Subtopia.” He defines this as “a mean and middle state, neither town nor country, an even spread of abandoned aerodromes and fake rusticity, wire fences, traffic roundabouts, gratuitous notice-boards, carparks and Things in Fields.” His book on Paris is superb as well. Find it."]

***

"Acclaimed critic Ian Nairn’s masterpiece, reissued for the first time since 1955 and introduced by Travis Elborough.

In 1955, Britain’s most prestigious architectural magazine, The Architectural Review, published a special issue featuring a single essay by Ian Nairn, a famously opinionated (and untrained) architectural critic. Based on observations made on a journey he took across the UK in a Morris Minor, Outrage by Ian Nairn is a searing critique of urban sprawl, or ‘Subtopia’. In this manifesto, Nairn warns that ‘if what is called development is allowed to multiply at the present rate’, Britain’s natural – and urban – landscapes will lose their individuality and spirit.

A call-to-arms against the ‘greying out’ of our towns and countryside before it’s too late, Outrage by Ian Nairn is widely considered to be his masterpiece.

Contains over fifty of Nairn’s original black-and-white photographs."

***

[See also:

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/773882/outrage-by-ian-nairn-introduced-by-travis-elborough/

"Acclaimed architectural critic Ian Nairn’s masterpiece, reissued for the first time since 1955.

In June of 1955, The Architectural Review (Britain’s most acclaimed and well-read magazine of architectural criticism) published a special issue featuring one essay called Outrage by Ian Nairn. As one of Britain’s most famously opinionated (and untrained) architectural critics, it came as no surprise that the issue opened with a prophecy of doom: “that if what is called development is allowed to multiply at the present rate,” then all can be expected is the subsequent loss of the individuality and spirit of Britain’s natural, and urban, landscapes.

Nairn coined this phenomenon “Subtopia” and demonstrated it, throughout the issue, with mugshots of offending lampposts, arterial roads, and garrotted trees. For the first time in North America and the first time in decades in the UK, Nairn’s influential essay is newly available, now in a handsome volume complete with the original images. "

https://www.architectural-review.com/essays/outrage

"Following Ian Nairn’s 1955 ‘Outrage’ issue, which decried the UK’s suburban sprawl, this opinion piece has appeared at various moments in the pages of the AR. Since 2015, it maintains a position in every themed issue, as a continuing campaign against the most egregious of architectural misdeeds – from failures of government and property developers to greenwashing, ecological violence and social injustice"

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2010/may/15/architecture-ian-nairn

"Ian Nairn's voice of outrage: His attacks on the banality of Britain's postwar buildings made Ian Nairn an inspiration for a generation of architectural critics. Jonathan Glancey celebrates the scourge of 'subtopia'"]]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://donotresearch.substack.com/p/catherine-liu-i-live-in-the-future">
    <title>Catherine Liu: I Live in the Future</title>
    <dc:date>2025-09-16T04:10:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://donotresearch.substack.com/p/catherine-liu-i-live-in-the-future</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Irvine is completely its own thing: its ‘villages’ only refer to other ‘villages’ in Irvine. Its neighborhoods are compromises between an urban planner and a real estate speculator. Its houses are not well built or well designed, but they are so utterly comfortable. Irvine is completely and utterly anonymous, prosperous, rich, decentered. It is the inhuman future of a frictionless Internet made flesh. It is Artificial Intelligence embodied. It has crunched all domestic architectural styles of 20th century America and remade them in the most profitable, most efficient, least offensive style possible. It is a city designed for the future of the end of history: even if history passes it by, it will continue to shine like a beacon indicating what the United States could be if it could be designed for a happy population of philistine millionaires, serviced by low wage workers. Every wealthy neighborhood in America just wants to be managed by the Irvine Company. Every bohemian neighborhood wants to refute it. Irvine is more than a city: it is anti-humanist, anti-liberal and so low key futuristic you don’t even notice its accelerationist reality."]]></description>
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    <title>the eminem sized hole in white america - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2025-08-31T21:10:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKevy6Bzkng</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In this video, let's yap about the decline of white subcultural expression and the pressure release valves keeping white america in check has created the perfect recipe for a MAGA co-opt. Welcome to the new America where history is irrelevant, truth is optional and ignorance is freedom.


00:00 Introduction: Eminem's Impact on White America
00:43 Eminem's Role in Suburban Culture
03:06 The Decline of Subcultures and Rise of MAGA
06:46 The Evolution of Teenage Identity
10:36 The Impact of Algorithms on Culture
16:41 Eminem's Class Consciousness and Licensed Transgression
24:22 Exploring American Hypocrisy & The Evolution of Trolling
26:09 The Privileged Paradox: Then vs. Now
29:45 White Allyship and Erased Histories
36:34 Manufactured Grievance vs. Authentic Rebellion
45:52 Rebuilding Authentic Subcultures"]]></description>
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPGvXhicF2M ]]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://tis.so/lightness">
    <title>Lightness - tis.so</title>
    <dc:date>2025-05-27T02:33:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://tis.so/lightness</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Have you browsed /r/ultralight? They get obsessed with shaving mere ounces off their pack and end up with super elegant tent designs, where you reuse your hiking poles as the structural props for your tent (e.g.). Not being burdened by a pack (not bringing your bag with your gear everywhere) and its relationship to freedom.

There’s a way in which the ultralight people end up becoming heavy about lightness. Being light about lightness means being ok with taking a $1 bandana with you and using it to wrap a sandwich and then when you’ve eaten the sandwich using it to blow your nose. Being heavy about lightness is weighing the bandana on a scale and paying $70 for microfiber cloth that is half an ounce lighter"

[via:
https://www.are.na/block/36983758 ]

"I keep thinking about buying a projector so I can watch movies at home more comfortably, but my calculus so far has been towards a lifestyle of going to the theater… Suburbanization is a sickness.

People are bringing weight into their life to avoid the public cinema. I’ve only liked going to the cinema since I realized the best films all played at a cinema near my house, where the box office is on the street and the atrium is only feet deep. Taking the train to the multiplex, and then going up three escalators to get to the screen? It’s starting to get heavier than the projector.

Part of the lightness thesis is that what cannot be made light should be made into public infrastructure."

[via:
https://www.are.na/block/36983703 ]

"I wonder how levity of mood connects with freedom—something about playfulness meaning you’re not locked into a habituated or socially-mandated mode of response? Open-ended rather than closed.

“The spiritual style of Bresson’s heroes is one variety or other of unself-consciousness. Consciousness of self is the ‘gravity’ that burdens the spirit; the surpassing of the consciousness of self is ‘grace’ or spiritual lightness.”"

[via:
https://www.are.na/block/36983761 ]

"Another word for lightness is “economy”.

“Economy of effort.” Both the exchange of labor, and the withholding of labor.

Another way to view this question is as one of what should be weighty in a life. I posit we should be held down by our commitments to others, but not by the task of living."

[via:
https://www.are.na/block/36983738 ]]]></description>
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    <title>Hundreds of Capybaras ‘Conquered’ This Town. Now What? - The New York Times</title>
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...

"Her group is pushing for the capybara to be given their own nature reserve, but there appears to be little interest from Nordelta’s developers. “I don’t understand how they can only think of vasectomy and sterilization,” she said."

...

"How a Capybara Habitat Became a Golf Course
Satellite images show how the community of Nordelta expanded between 1995 and 2020."]]></description>
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    <title>The Walking Rebellion: Restoring the Mind at Three Miles an Hour</title>
    <dc:date>2024-10-24T01:28:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://schooloftheunconformed.substack.com/p/the-walking-rebellion-restoring-the</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["There might not be any natural remedy in the world as protective as walking against the deadening impact of our sedentary, chair-bound, screen-mesmerized lives. Walking is the original form of scrolling. Yet it doesn’t lead us down online rabbit holes, but past real rabbit holes. It keeps us grounded, literally by keeping our feet on the ground. It keeps us softly fascinated by ever-changing scenery. Walking is calming, head-clearing, and social and even spiritual when we do it together. If walking were a food, it would be a celebrated superfood packed with nutrients that feed our mind, body, relationships, and contact with nature—and it would cost nothing.

The beauty of walking is that it does so many things at once, in a single, simple act. Walking creates a wholeness in us in a way that few other activities can.

And it can’t be monetized.

We all walk a bit differently. Some people walk with canes, some “walk” with wheelchairs or ambulate with prosthetic limbs. Whatever way you walk, we’re going to suggest that walking long distances regularly, preferably in nature, might be one of the easiest yet most powerful antidotes to the Machine.

Do you want to fight the ills of technology and modern life, without fighting at all?

Walk.

Walk alone, walk with friends, walk with your kids, walk with God. “Keep moving”, as the wise old woman said."]]></description>
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    <title>Cars Have Fucked Up This Country Bad - by Hamilton Nolan</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["There is much beauty in America. Yet, on average, America is an ugly country. The median American scene, the one that illustrates the most typical view of the most typical place, would be an exhaust-choked roadway flanked on both sides by fast food restaurants and big box stores. This is what we have done with our purple mountains, majesty, from sea to shining sea.

The culprit is the car. More specifically, the culprit is America’s decision to design our cities around the car. Predicting the future is almost impossible, but one of the few predictions that I feel very confident in is that, a century or so down the road, people will look at modern car-centric America with the same disgust that we feel when we hear about old timey cities without modern sewage systems, where everyone just dumped their chamber pots in the street. “Whoa, that’s fucked up!” people will marvel from their quiet, pedestrianized cities of the future. “They couldn’t walk anywhere.”

America’s collective decision in the 20th century to make cars and the roads serving them the bedrock of all urban and regional planning will go down in history as just another of our nation’s awful, ruinous ideas that we nevertheless clung to for generations, like slavery or lead paint. Cars, of course, have a way of making themselves very hard to progress away from. Once you build the towns and cities around the road patterns for cars, and allow the interstate highway system to determine development patterns, the entire system gets locked in in a way that is difficult to change. Even as ever-widening highways and air pollution and the immense parking lots destroy ever larger swaths of peace and scenery, they also represent ever larger sunk costs from consumers and governments, which make everyone more reluctant to try to break away from them.

New cars spawn new roads. New roads spawn new sprawl. It all spawns new debts. To admit that this entire thing was a mistake involves surveying our suburban homes, our paved driveways, our SUVs, our shopping centers, our entire beloved home towns, and saying: Okay, this has all gotten out of control. As all addicts know, this piercing self-criticism can be more difficult than just continuing doing something that is unhealthy, but familiar.

Tennessee Williams famously said “America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.” I might toss in Chicago and Philly, but the observation still holds true today—except that now, everywhere else is Denton, Texas, or The Shitty Sprawl Outside of Tampa. It is no coincidence that the real cities in America are those that developed enough before the rise of cars that they could not be totally destroyed by the Highway Cloverleaf Era. Robert Moses did his best to fuck up NYC, and New Orleans got I-10 bulldozed straight through it, but both had enough urban character already in place to survive. Not so for most places. Americans unlucky enough to grow up in more recently built towns and exurbs are stuck having their entire lives defined by the spatial needs of cars. Their neighborhood density is low, their mobility options are limited, and the most urban-esque experience they ever get growing up might be playing with friends on the pavement of a suburban cul-de-sac. Never will they “walk” to a “corner store.” Always will they drive to a Target. If there were ever any beautiful nature along the way, now there is only highway and billboards and shredded semi truck tires on the side of the road. Sad.

Since Jane Jacobs, urbanists and regular city residents alike have had the strong intuition that building more roads to fit more cars into cities is a fundamentally stupid thing. Engineers have long known that widening highways does not fix traffic gridlock, but that has not stopped states from spending billions of dollars to build more and more lanes, until huge swaths of LA and Houston and Atlanta resemble dystopican concrete car rivers more than cities where humans might live. A new study in the Journal of the American Planning Association provides the best estimate yet of just how much space we have ceded to roads in our cities. “ We found that a little less than a quarter of urbanized land—roughly the size of West Virginia—was dedicated to roadway. This land was worth around $4.1 trillion in 2016 and had an annualized value that was higher than the total variable costs of the trucking sector and the total annual federal, state, and local expenditures on roadways,” the study found. In an example of the sort of dry wit that you might not expect from the Journal of the American Planning Association, the authors added, “Conducting a back-of-the-envelope cost–benefit analysis, we found that the country likely has too much land dedicated to urban roads.”

In fact, the study calculates that “the average cost of expanding roadways exceeded the benefits by a factor of nearly three when accounting for land value.” This observation gets to the heart of the most common-sense objection to the way that we allow roads to dictate urban development: the more space that we dedicate to getting there, the less space there is for where you are trying to get. To see a city choked by busy roads is to witness a manifestation of missing the point. Roads are barren, inhospitable landscapes whose only redeeming value is allowing us to reach somewhere much more pleasant than the road itself. When roads come to dominate the non-road area of a city, you have, by definition, built too much road. It is like building a staircase that takes up the entire first floor of a two-story house. You have left yourself nowhere to live.

This grotesque pattern of development rests upon a wild overvaluation of “how long it takes to drive somewhere” and an accompanying undervaluation of “all quality of life categories apart from driving time.” Unfortunately, the path out of our predicament is a long one. Ripping ill-advised existing highways out of cities is a great idea, but it will be most helpful only in cities that were well developed before the highway existed. The situation of the millions of Americans who live in newer sprawl-based towns and suburbs whose entire design is based on the idea that you will drive anywhere any time you want to do anything is more grim. These are the places where the handful of impoverished car-less citizens are forced to pedal bikes on the unprotected shoulders of roads like suicidal hobos. To suggest that these places should stop being car-centric is to suggest that they should probably just be bulldozed down to the dirt and rebuilt as civilized compact urban areas suitable for mass transit. I don’t expect that will happen any time soon. But it wouldn’t be a bad idea.

Instead, I expect that America will undergo a long process, lasting much longer than my own lifetime, in which cities that are not built around cars will gradually expand and attract an ever-increasing share of the population, and the most thinly populated car-centric places will gradually decline in value, because they are just not nice places to live. Medium sized cities in places like the Sunbelt that experience a lot of growth due to affordable housing prices or economic booms will, at some point, reach levels of density that make car-centric planning so clearly insane that even the most truck-loving state and local governments will be dragged into the age of mass transit, by necessity. This is one of those areas where you can be pretty certain that a better future will arrive purely because the logic of it is unavoidable. And you can be equally certain that the path to getting there will be longer and more excruciating than it should be, because here in America, we will stubbornly cling to our outmoded, counterproductive, discredited ideas longer than anyone.

We’re number one!"]]></description>
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    <title>You Are Who You Meet: A Geography of Common Ground</title>
    <dc:date>2024-07-28T14:04:30+00:00</dc:date>
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    <title>The Secret to Japan's Great Cities - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2024-07-14T18:16:51+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["References & Further Reading

Life Where I'm From - Why Japan Looks the Way it Does: Zoning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfm2xCKOCNk

Machizukuri
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machizukuri
https://participedia.net/method/
https://labgov.city/theurbanmedialab/the-japanese-way-of-urban-planning-the-machizukuri-approach/
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237482918_Toshikeikaku_and_Machizukuri_in_Japanese_Urban_Planning_The_Reconstruction_of_Inner_City_Neighborhoods_in_Kobe_Japanstudien
https://strongesttown.com/approach/
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2019/11/11/chuck-member-drive-monday

Rural Americans are importing tiny Japanese pickup trucks
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2023/04/20/rural-americans-are-importing-tiny-japanese-pickup-trucks

Fietsersbond
https://www.fietsersbond.nl/

Stroads
https://nebula.tv/videos/not-just-bikes-the-ugly-dangerous-and-inefficient-stroads-found-all-over-the-us-canada-st05
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORzNZUeUHAM

Japan's worst traffic is NOT in Tokyo - Okinawa
https://nebula.tv/videos/lifewhereimfrom-the-worst-traffic-in-japan-isnt-in-tokyo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6h_Dy7VY1Y

Toolbox of Pedestrian Countermeasures and Their Potential Effectiveness 
https://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/ped_bike/tools_solve/fhwasa18041/fhwasa18041.pdf

How Much Traffic is Cruising for Parking?
https://transfersmagazine.org/magazine-article/issue-4/how-much-traffic-is-cruising-for-parking/

---
Chapters

0:00 Intro
0:56 What makes a Japanese Street?
2:15 Japanese Zoning
4:26 Local Planning - Machizukuri
5:11 Solving Traffic Congestion
7:08 Financially Sustainable Cities
7:57 Different Sizes of Streets
9:17 Traffic Calming & Slower Cars
10:26 Reducing Car Volumes
11:24 Road Design
11:52 Good Pedestrian Bridges?
13:41 No Street Parking
15:31 Off-Street Parking
17:06 Stopping & Unloading
17:38 Kei Cars & Key Trucks
19:36 Cycling without Bike Lanes
21:44 Bicycle Paring
24:49 Horrible Roads & Stroads
25:57 Car-Centric Japan
28:00 Oversized, Empty Roads
19:56 Destroying Great Neighbourhoods for Cars
31:30 The Reality of Japanese Cities
32:45 80,000 Hours"]]></description>
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    <title>An Honest Living: A Memoir of Peculiar Itineraries with Steven Salaita - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2024-03-14T18:34:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eegzTvPT6xY</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In this episode we welcome Steven Salaita back to MAKC to discuss his most recent book An Honest Living: A Memoir of Peculiar Itineraries

Book Description:

In the summer of 2014, Steven Salaita was fired from a tenured position in American Indian Studies at the University of Illinois for his unwavering stance on Palestinian human rights and other political controversies. A year later, he landed a job in Lebanon, but that, too, ended badly. With no other recourse, Salaita found himself trading his successful academic career for an hourly salaried job. Told primarily from behind the wheel of a school bus―a vantage point from which Salaita explores social anxiety, suburban architecture, political alienation, racial oppression, working-class solidarity, pro­fessional malfeasance, and the joy of chauffeuring children to and from school―An Honest Living describes the author’s decade of turbulent post-professorial life and his recent return to the lectern.

Steven Salaita was practically born to a life in academia. His father taught physics at an HBCU in southern West Virginia and his earliest memories are of life on campus and the cinder walls of the classroom. It was no surprise that he ended up in the classroom straight after graduate school. Yet three of his university jobs―Virginia Tech, the University of Illinois, and the American University of Beirut [AUB] ―ended in public controversy. Shaken by his sudden notoriety and false claims of antisemitism, Salaita found himself driving a school bus to make ends meet. While some considered this just punishment for his anti-Zionist beliefs, Steven found that driving a bus provided him with not just a means to pay the bills but a path toward freedom of thought.

Now ten years later, with a job at American University at Cairo, Salaita reconciles his past with his future. His restlessness has found a home, yet his return to academe is met with the same condition of fugitivity from whence he was expelled: an occasion for defiance, not conciliation. An Honest Living presents an intimate personal narrative of the author’s decade of professional joys and travails."]]></description>
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    <title>Why We Can’t Build Better Cities (ft.Not Just Bikes) - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2024-02-23T21:19:07+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["BIBLIOGRAPHY

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    <dc:date>2023-11-24T16:41:15+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Gustavo Esteva coined the slogan “One No, Many Yeses” to communicate the way Illich’s sense of “the vernacular” offers many small and winding exits off of the one big road of industrial “progress” that tries to gather up the whole globe into one great machine, one overriding system so vast that it no longer has an outside. Modernity, or The Machine, if you prefer Paul Kingsnorth’s term, as a kind of mutant of Christian mission, aims to bring everyone and everything into its fold, dissolving local culture and custom, eroding the soil of friendship that is always particular, fitting to this place, these people. In this conversation, Dougald Hine, Sam Ewell and friends colour in some of the small, convivial possibilities that lie on the other side of a no to the promises of modernity, the kinds of gardens that can grow up in the cracks of big systems."

[Conversation #1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvbzuQdO19M

Conversation #2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJOwHQXpMbQ

Conversation #3 (this bookmark)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Avh1AJ9sls

Conversation #4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19q4pWKPlj0

See also:

Ivan Illich/David Cayley Book Club #3 of 6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhCYH95t768 ]]]></description>
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    <title>Opinion | What Communes and Other Radical Experiments in Living Together Reveal - The New York Times</title>
    <dc:date>2023-06-14T23:21:17+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Intentional communities may offer solutions for loneliness and other problems of an atomized society.

...

“Today’s future-positive writers critique our economies while largely seeming to ignore that anything might be amiss in our private lives,” writes Kristen Ghodsee. Even our most ambitious visions of utopia tend to focus on outcomes that can be achieved through public policy — things like abundant clean energy or liberation from employment — while ignoring many of the aspects of our lives that matter to us the most: how we live, raise our children, and tend to our most meaningful relationships.

Ghodsee’s new book, “Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life,” is an attempt to change that. The book is a tour of radical social experiments from communes and ecovillages to “platonic parenting” and intentional communities. But, on a deeper level, it’s a critique of the way existing structures of family and community life have left so many of us devoid of care and connection, and a vision of what it could mean to organize our lives differently."

[transcript:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/09/podcasts/ezra-klein-podcast-transcript-kristen-ghodsee.html

audio:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFyA4u29LWg
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0TyYzJXmnNUf4UVxAoAaxZ
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-communes-and-other-radical-experiments-in-living/id1548604447?i=1000616253878 ]]]></description>
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    <title>BART and the Killing of Oscar Grant - American Leftist</title>
    <dc:date>2023-06-13T16:33:11+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Last Friday, a Los Angeles County jury returned a verdict in the criminal proceeding against Johannes Mehserle, the BART cop that killed a young, African American man, Oscar Grant, in the early morning hours of New Year's Day, 2009. Predictably, it was involuntary manslaughter. Sporadic rioting took place in Oakland after the police closed down rallies where people condemned it. People apparently focused their rage upon transnational franchises when others in the community organized to defend local businesses. For a radical perspective of someone who has been closely associated with the protests since Grant was killed, and partipated in the protests after the verdict, consider this Counterpunch article by George Cicariello-Maher.
My purpose in writing this post is to examine the incident in light of the ambivalent relationship between BART and the communities associated with Oscar Grant, the impoverished, predominately neighborhoods of color in the East Bay. Planning for BART predates World War II, and financing for the system was put in place in the early 1960s. Trains began running in 1972, with the Transbay Tube opening in 1974. Trains ran between the Daly City station south of San Francisco and the Fremont, Concord and Richmond stations in the East Bay. It is fair to say that no infrastructure project of the last 60 years, with the possible exception of the interstate highway system, has had as much of an influence on the Bay Area.

In conjunction with the interstate highway system, BART facilitated the ongoing suburbanization on the east of eastern Contra Costa and southern Alameda counties, across the hills from Oakland, Berkeley and Richmond,fueling population growth in cities like Concord, Pleasanton, Lafayette, Livermore, Hercules and Pinole, among others. People who moved to these places could take the interstate to a BART station, and then commute to work in the East Bay or the City. Given that three of the four train lines traversed the financial district in downtown San Francisco (and still do), the result was the intensification of highrise development, a process that went by the name of Manhattanization. San Francisco was transformed into a central city employment and entertainment destination after a long history of economically diverse interconnected neighborhoods.

For East Bay cities like Oakland, Richmond and Hayward, BART was just another excuse for white flight, leaving behind, first, islands of poor, predominately African American neighborhoods, and then, as a result of Latino and Asian immigration, poor, predominately neighborhoods of color. The departing middle class could now travel through these neighborhoods while safely esconsced inside comfortable, silver high speed metallic trains. Later, people priced out of expensive real estate markets by the bay found themselves relying upon them as well. BART was a physical manifestation of the phenomenon of physical isolation that rendered lower income communities west of the hills subject to the economic asphyiation of Reaganism and neoliberalism. By placing these communities out of sight, it was then fairly easy to initiate the demonization of the people within them as expressions of various artificially created social pathologies.

There reverse side of this coin of suburbanization was the increased mobility that BART provided for young people, including those who lived the lower income communities of the East Bay. I have traveled on BART frequently over the last 30 years, and I have observed how young people have come to rely upon it more and more as a form of social networking. Before there was Facebook, there was BART. Teens and young adults move between San Francisco, the East Bay and the East Bay suburbs almost effortlessly. Within a day, one could see friends in the Mission, go to a concert in Oakland or Berkeley and then return home. By adding one's bike to the equation, one's range grows even greater. Oscar Grant himself was an example of this in the hours before he was killed when he traveled from Hayward to the Embarcardero in San Francisco to participate in the New Year's Eve celebration there. Without BART, he and his friends may well have decided to do something else because of difficulty of driving into the City and the cost of parking once they arrived.

But there is a problem. The suburbanites that use BART to travel to work and entertainment activities all around the bay find these young people rather unnerving. Like most young people, they can be boisterous and sometimes rude. A few, it must be conceded, commit crimes, although I am not sure whether they do so at a rate substantially higher than older adults. So BART faces a dilemma: how to manage a system so as to maintain the confidence of those who use it to commute to work and travel to evening entertainment events, like, say, a baseball game at AT&T Park. Not surprisingly, the response has been to rely upon a highly visible police presence, and the characterization of young people traveling on the system as anticipated perils.

It was this, the collision between the fears of an older, more suburban ridership, and the social exploitation of it by young people, that contributed to the killing of Oscar Grant by BART police officer Johannes Mehserle. On New Year's Eve, BART trains operated into the early morning hours past the usual midnight shut down of the system. Officers on duty that evening were instructed to anticipate potentially serious problems with rowdy young New Year's Eve celebrants. According to BART, a couple of guns had been recovered on the line in the hour before the shooting, and Mehserle had been involved in an incident earlier that evening when a teen age boy with a semi-automatic weapon had broken bones after jumping over a fence. Given BART's spotty, seemingly self-interested, record of public disclosure and disinterest in promptly communicating with the witnesses to the incident, I will leave it to the reader to decide whether these events actually happened. Just prior to the shooting of Grant, BART police were responding to reports that up to 20 people were involved in a fight on the BART train approaching Fruitvale station.

Grant did not know it, but, as he was traveling home on the Fruitvale line, he satisfied two of the major criteria for being targeted by the police as the source of the reported trouble on the train, he was young, and he was a black male. As the train arrived, another BART police officer, Tony Pirone, was detaining a drunk man in the station. Pirone ran upstairs to meet the train, and forcibly detained Grant, ordering Mehserle to arrest Grant and a friend for, yes, resisting arrest. Of course, one is immediately struck by Pirone's decision to detain Grant, who was, after all, getting off the train, without any apparent effort to determine if the report was true, and, if so, what assertion of authority was required. Immediately thereafter, Mehserle pulled out his gun, shot Grant in the back as he lay on the ground, and killed him. Three eyewitnesses testified at Mehserle's trial that neither Grant nor his friend resisted, and expressed disgust at the aggressive conduct of the officers."]]></description>
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    <title>Line in the Sand | Kate Wagner</title>
    <dc:date>2023-02-11T02:37:58+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["By default, ethics are blurred in the industry, especially under capitalism, where, as the tired adage goes, there is no ethical consumption. Projects like NEOM are not particularly novel: Norman Foster and Zaha Hadid have conceived of superyachts for the obscenely wealthy and luxury trifles for despots in the Middle East—like the Al Janoub Stadium in Qatar, one of the major venues for the 2022 World Cup. On occasion, this status quo can be challenged, as evidenced by those firms who have ceased their Russian projects as Putin and his cronies continue their imperial misadventure in Ukraine.

However, as far as pie-in-the-sky vanity projects go, NEOM feels different. Even if it’s never completed, the environmental havoc, displacement, and immiseration it will inflict should puncture once and for all the image of architecture as some kind of world-bettering public service exempt from the horrors and temptations of capitalism. To take on a project like NEOM is objectively and profoundly unethical. To take on any project bankrolled by dictators, oligarchs, petro-regimes, as well as the carceral state here at home, is unethical."

[See also:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-277-neom-moon-w-special-guest-kate-wagner/id1227003413?i=1000598949696

Noting too that they starting at 40:40 they discuss that article about Fleishman Is in Trouble and a lot of the tags here are about that.
https://www.thecut.com/2023/02/the-fleishman-is-in-trouble-effect.html

earlier in the show this is mentioned too
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-tech-company-to-build-science-ghost-town-in-nm-2011sep06-story.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Center,_New_Mexico ]]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This 1973 essay on how cars have taken over our cities remains as relevant as ever"

[Also here:
https://atlasofplaces.com/essays/the-social-ideology-of-the-motorcar/
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2018-08-13/the-social-ideology-of-the-motorcar/

See also:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxrhePD5pSQ ]

"The worst thing about cars is that they are like castles or villas by the sea: luxury goods invented for the exclusive pleasure of a very rich minority, and which in conception and nature were never intended for the people. Unlike the vacuum cleaner, the radio, or the bicycle, which retain their use value when everyone has one, the car, like a villa by the sea, is only desirable and useful insofar as the masses don’t have one. That is how in both conception and original purpose the car is a luxury good. And the essence of luxury is that it cannot be democratized. If everyone can have luxury, no one gets any advantages from it. On the contrary, everyone diddles, cheats, and frustrates everyone else, and is diddled, cheated, and frustrated in return."

...

"From being a luxury item and a sign of privilege, the car has thus become a vital necessity. You have to have one so as to escape from the urban hell of the cars. Capitalist industry has thus won the game: the superfluous has become necessary. There’s no longer any need to persuade people that they want a car; its necessity is a fact of life. It is true that one may have one’s doubts when watching the motorized escape along the exodus roads. Between 8 and 9:30 a.m., between 5:30 and 7 p.m., and on weekends for five and six hours the escape routes stretch out into bumper-to-bumper processions going (at best) the speed of a bicyclist and in a dense cloud of gasoline fumes. What remains of the car’s advantages? What is left when, inevitably, the top speed on the roads is limited to exactly the speed of the slowest car?

Fair enough. After killing the city, the car is killing the car. Having promised everyone they would be able to go faster, the automobile industry ends up with the unrelentingly predictable result that everyone has to go as slowly as the very slowest, at a speed determined by the simple laws of fluid dynamics. Worse: having been invented to allow its owner to go where he or she wishes, at the time and speed he or she wishes, the car becomes, of all vehicles, the most slavish, risky, undependable and uncomfortable. Even if you leave yourself an extravagant amount of time, you never know when the bottlenecks will let you get there. You are bound to the road as inexorably as the train to its rails. No more than the railway traveller can you stop on impulse, and like the train you must go at a speed decided by someone else. Summing up, the car has none of the advantages of the train and all of its disadvantages, plus some of its own: vibration, cramped space, the danger of accidents, the effort necessary to drive it.

And yet, you may say, people don’t take the train. Of course! How could they? Have you ever tried to go from Boston to New York by train? Or from Ivry to Treport? Or from Garches to Fountainebleau? Or Colombes to l’Isle-Adam? Have you tried on a summer Saturday or Sunday? Well, then, try it and good luck to you! You’ll observe that automobile capitalism has thought of everything. Just when the car is killing the car, it arranges for the alternatives to disappear, thus making the car compulsory. So first the capitalist state allowed the rail connections between the cities and the surrounding countryside to fall to pieces, and then it did away with them. The only ones that have been spared are the high-speed intercity connections that compete with the airlines for a bourgeois clientele. There’s progress for you!"]]></description>
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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/18/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-nk-jemisin.html

transcript:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/18/podcasts/ezra-klein-interviews-nk-jemisin.html ]

"N.K. Jemisin is a fantasy and science-fiction writer who won three consecutive Hugo Awards — considered the highest honor in science-fiction writing — for her “Broken Earth” trilogy; she has since won two more Hugos, as well as other awards. But in imagining wild fictional narratives, the beloved sci-fi and fantasy writer has also cultivated a remarkable view of our all-too-real world. In her fiction, Jemisin crafts worlds that resemble ours but get disrupted by major shocks: ecological disasters, invasions by strange, tentacled creatures and more — all of which operate as thought experiments that can help us think through how human beings could and should respond to similar calamities.

Jemisin’s latest series, which includes “The City We Became” and “The World We Make,” takes place in a recognizable version of New York City — the texture of its streets, the distinct character of its five boroughs — that’s also gripped by strange, magical forces. The series, in addition to being a rollicking read, is essentially a meditation on cities: how they come into being, how their very souls get threatened by forces like systemic racism and astronomical inequality and how their energies and cultures have the power to rescue and save those souls.

I invited Jemisin on the show to help me take stock of the political and cultural ferment behind these distressing conditions — and also to remember the magical qualities of cities, systems and human nature. We discuss why multiverse fictions like “Everything Everywhere All at Once” are so popular now, how the culture and politics of New York and San Francisco have homogenized drastically in recent decades, Jemisin’s views on why a coalition of Black and Latinx voters elected a former cop as New York’s mayor, how gentrification causes change that we may not at first recognize, where to draw the line between imposing order and celebrating the disorder of cities, how Donald Trump kept stealing Jemisin’s ideas but is at the root a “badly written character,” whether we should hold people accountable for their choices or acknowledge the way the status quo shapes our decision-making, what excites Jemisin about recent discoveries about outer space, why she thinks we are all “made of exploding stars” and more.

Mentioned:
N.K. Jemisin interview on Vox’s "The Gray Area with Sean Illing"

Book recommendations:
Fullmetal Alchemist by Hiromu Arakawa
Mechanique by Genevieve Valentine
Witch King by Martha Wells
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs"]]></description>
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Sources in the video.

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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Alex Schafran
Author of "The Road to Resegregation: Northern California and the Failure of Politics"

The Human Cities Expo 2018 featured interactive exhibits, student presentations, and keynote talks from Michael Germeraad, Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) and Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) and author Alex Schafran.

Learn more at humancities.org/human-cities-expo-2018/

Video by melvinwongmedia.com "]]></description>
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    <title>Revisiting Mike Davis' case for letting Malibu burn - Los Angeles Times</title>
    <dc:date>2018-11-16T21:48:30+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["During fire season, I always think about Mike Davis, author of one of the most — pardon the pun — incendiary essays in the annals of SoCal letters: “The Case for Letting Malibu Burn.” I return to this chapter from his book “Ecology of Fear” any time that the Santa Ana winds howl and thousands flee raging infernos — a ritual that used to happen every couple of years but now seems to happen every couple of months.

“The Case for Letting Malibu Burn” is a powerhouse of history, science, Marxist analysis — and a certain amount of trolling. Its main point is that Southern Californians will never accept that fire is not only common here, but part of our ecology going back centuries. To spend millions saving homes in areas never meant for neighborhoods and power lines is not just folly, but a waste of public resources.

This time around, as California burned from the north to the south, I checked in via email with Davis, now professor emeritus at UC Riverside. He’s best known for his literary double whammy against Los Angeles exceptionalism: 1990’s “City of Quartz” and 1998’s “Ecology of Fear.” Those books made the Los Angeles of “Chinatown” seem as sinister as Mayberry. Davis’ tales of racism, poverty, corruption and other sins — backed by copious footnotes — inspired a generation of radical historians and writers, including yours truly. He also riled an army of detractors who so hated his apocalyptic warnings that they ridiculed everything from his scholarship to his marriages to the fact that he was born in Fontana.
 
But as the years go on, Davis’ bleak words read more like revelations than rants. Just as he argued, we build deeper into canyons and foothills, daring Mother Nature to give us her best shot — and then are shocked when she does.

The Woolsey fire has already scorched more than 96,000 acres in Ventura and Los Angeles counties, destroying 435 structures in Malibu and other cities. It’s yet another “fire of the century” for the beach city.

“Maybe 10 or 20 years ago, you stayed in your homes when there was a fire and you were able to protect them,” Ventura County Fire Chief Mark Lorenzen said during a news conference this weekend. “We’re entering a new normal. Things are not the way they were 10 years ago.”

In other words, we now live in Mike Davis’ world. He has ascended to the pantheon of Golden State visionary authors like Helen Hunt Jackson, Upton Sinclair and Carey McWilliams who held up a mirror to us that we have ignored at our own peril.

“The Case for Letting Malibu Burn” depicted Malibu and other wealthy cities built in the boonies as created not for “love of the great outdoors or frontier rusticity,” but rather as “thickets of privacy” against L.A.’s working classes and people of color.

We enable this white flight into the mountains, he argued, by not just allowing development where there shouldn’t be any, but also subsidizing those affected by the inevitable wildfire in the form of cheap fire insurance and squadrons of first responders deployed around the clock at the hint of an ember.

He went through a litany of Malibu blazes over the last century, concluding with the Old Topanga blaze of 1993 — which consumed about 18,000 acres but destroyed 323 structures. Throw in climate change, Davis noted in a version of his essay that appeared in the L.A. Weekly, and the catastrophe “marked a qualitative escalation in fire danger, if not the actual emergence of a new, post-suburban fire regime.”

And, almost exactly 25 years later, here we are again.

Davis’ work on Malibu’s flames has aged far better than the criticism of it. Chapman University urban studies fellow Joel Kotkin, for instance, said of “Ecology of Fear” back in the 1990s that it “basically mugs Los Angeles” and is “truly nauseating stuff.” Yet by 2007, Kotkin told the Economist, in an article about the fires that fall that wreaked havoc from San Diego to Santa Barbara, that “nature still has a lot of power” in the once-unspoiled areas where we build homes — which is what Davis contended all along.

Then there’s former Malibu real estate agent Brady Westwater, who refashioned himself as a downtown L.A. booster. You couldn’t write about “Ecology of Fear” for years without mentioning Westwater, who hounded reporters with screeds and stats about Davis’ real and alleged errors until the press finally began to cite him as a legitimate critic.

In his own 1998 essay (whose titled described Davis as a “purposefully misleading liar”), Westwater predicted that “fire damage will decrease over the years” in Malibu because of better infrastructure and better-built homes. Of the Old Topanga disaster, he plainly declared: “That kind of fire can never happen again.”

And yet here we are again.

Davis remains persona non grata in Malibu, from Neptune’s Net to Pepperdine University. Malibuites took “The Case…” as a direct attack on their beliefs and ways of life.

Davis takes no satisfaction in seeing his analysis come true all over again. But the author, who’s recovering from cancer, stands by what he wrote.

“I’m infamous for suggesting that the broader public should not have to pay a cent to protect or rebuild mansions on sites that will inevitably burn every 20 or 25 years,” he told me. “My opinion hasn’t changed.”"]]></description>
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    <title>Michael Wesch – Unboxing Stories on Vimeo</title>
    <dc:date>2018-04-26T03:51:21+00:00</dc:date>
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A pioneer in digital ethnography, Dr. Michael Wesch studies how our changing media is altering human interaction. As an anthropologist in Papua New Guinea, Wesch saw firsthand how oral storytelling worked for much of human civilization: It was a group activity that rewarded participation, transformed our perceptions, and created a changing flow of stories across generations. Reading and writing replaced oral storytelling with linear, fixed stories. Upon returning from Papua New Guinea, Wesch created the 2007 viral video hit Web 2.0...The Machine Is Us/ing Us, about the Internet's effects on our culture. At FoST, he’ll explore how our evolution from a literate culture to a digital one can return us to collaborative storytelling, resulting in a more engaged, participatory, and connected society."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["From deep in NBC's archives, a funky '70s documentary which brought Marin County, California to national attention, from its fucked up deadbeat parents to its misguided fascination with mystical oriental ooga-booga horseshit. If you ever wondered why people associate peacock feathers and suicide with Marin, this is why. Strangely, Tupac Shakur does not make a cameo.

Each story in this film is an accurate depiction of everyone in Marin and does not deviate from any Marinite's experience, without exception."

[Via: ".@NBCNews did an extraordinary profile of Marin County 40 years ago:" https://twitter.com/nikosleverenz/status/950213237236117504

in response to: "In the 1960s, Marin County pioneered slow-growth environmentalism. Today the county's also home to some of the nation's highest housing costs, decades-old patterns of segregation and has the state's largest racial disparities http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-marin-county-affordable-housing-20170107-story.html "
https://twitter.com/dillonliam/status/950046576554029056 ]]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["One of the most famous attempts to describe Los Angeles depicts it as an enclave of communities without a focused core; a collective search for a pulse that does not exist. One version of this characterization suggests, “Los Angeles: seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.” Another narrows the scope: “nineteen suburbs in search of a metropolis.” Assigned to a series of writers, most famously Dorothy Parker, but also Aldous Huxley and H.L. Mencken, the words reverberate an anxiety about Angelenos’ collective experiences of space.[1] Pointing to the uniqueness of Los Angeles’s geography and topography, it also reveals the challenge of trying to capture the essence of a multi-nodal place with words alone. This essay examines how digital mapping can help to foreground localized knowledges of Los Angeles by introducing a pilot multimedia project called the Barrio Suburbanism Map.

In recent years, the digital-turn has birthed a new version of spatial musings similar to those of Parker, often in the form of maps. Rather than plotting points on a grid, digital mapping often combines practices of cartography, photography, narration, active revision, and public-orientation. These contemporary multimedia renderings demonstrate the continued active and critical searching for what it means to live in metropolitan Los Angeles. From this search, several questions emerge. Who decides what a place is called: barrio, suburb, neighborhood, ghetto, colonized territory? Where are its edges? How does a space become more than a location, but instead a site imbued with meaning? And, to whom? These questions move us beyond the iconic scene of Los Angeles produced from the studios of the Hollywood Hills to the lived experiences of space radiating out from Mariachi Plaza in Boyle Heights to the Tierra Mia coffee shop in Huntington Park. This essay explores how digital mapping might inform our understanding of metropolitan Los Angeles, both in the academy and beyond. Specifically, by pairing photographs with student ethnographies, the Barrio Suburbanism Map complicates popular perceptions of the suburbs as sites of homogeneity in order to reveal the dynamic diversity of suburbanization in multiracial Los Angeles, with a focus on Latinx communities.

Since the writings of 1920s social commentators, a range of urban historians, planners, creative writers, artists, and preservationists have created a wealth of scholarship and resources concerning Los Angeles and its suburbs: as bustling sites of working class identity, as spaces of queer sociability, and as areas of relocation for urban Chicanxs.[2] Yet, suburbs are habitually understood through the lenses of homeownership, whiteness, middle-class status, and conservatism in popular discourse. These depictions of suburbs eclipse the equally important histories of “triangular race relations” and “relational racialization” exemplified in places like Los Angeles, where complex interactions between race, class, and gender have accompanied the social segmentation of the metropolitan region.[3] Rather than a fixed set of characteristics, suburbia is networked, ever shifting, historically contingent, and defined by much more than political boundaries.[4]

This essay explores how digital mapping can function as an active means for engaging ongoing process of place-making, one that can offer unique contributions to both student learning and public engagement.[5] Beginning with a brief account of digital mapping projects in Greater Los Angeles, this essay provides a series of mosaics from one such project designed by the authors, the Barrio Suburbanism Map. A collaborative research project created by UCLA undergraduates in the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies, its aims are two-fold. First, it builds upon studies of the barrio and diverse suburbs to examine how these sites operate in multiracial and metropolitan contexts. Second, it foregrounds undergraduate research aimed at reaching a public audience through multimedia mapping. Piloted in an upper-division research seminar in the Winter of 2016, the project asks how Chicana/o and Latina/o populations have impacted the economic, social, and spatial contours of specific suburbs, with attention to how place-making and the built environment have changed over time."

…

"Through digital mapping, projects like the Barrio Suburbanism Map facilitate public-oriented research and student engagement in that process. By pairing photographs with student ethnographies, the map seeks to complicate popular perceptions of suburbia. It highlights the dynamic diversity of suburbanization in multiracial Los Angeles, with a focus on Latinx migration and settlement that aims to provoke critical discussion. In particular, it foregrounds how Latinx suburbanites impact the spatial and ideological contours of Greater Los Angeles. Rather than statistically driven mapping, these types of projects offer a more humanistic approach for interpreting space with the potential to train students in historical analysis. This is the first layer of an exponentially buildable platform. Future iterations, for instance, could introduce new layers to the present map that address labor history, housing prices, racial housing covenants, predatory lending, or fair housing activism, as well as artistic, literary, and architectural interventions in suburban spaces. As noted by the editors of Hypercities: Thick Mapping in the Digital Humanities, “thick maps are never finished and meanings are never definite… and give rise to forms of counter-mapping, alternative maps, multiple voices, and on-going contestations.” In this way, digital mapping offers a promising opportunity to develop pedagogical and public initiatives that are responsive to the changing conditions of the world we live in."]]></description>
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    <title>A Boom Interview: Mike Davis in conversation with Jennifer Wolch and Dana Cuff – Boom California</title>
    <dc:date>2017-01-02T03:42:57+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Dana Cuff: You told us that you get asked about City of Quartz too often, so let’s take a different tack. As one of California’s great urban storytellers, what is missing from our understanding of Los Angeles?

Mike Davis: The economic logic of real estate and land development. This has always been the master key to understanding spatial and racial politics in Southern California. As the late-nineteenth century’s most influential radical thinker—I’m thinking of San Francisco’s Henry George not Karl Marx—explained rather magnificently, you cannot reform urban space without controlling land values. Zoning and city planning—the Progressive tools for creating the City Beautiful—either have been totally co-opted to serve the market or died the death of a thousand cuts, that is to say by variances. I was briefly an urban design commissioner in Pasadena in the mid-1990s and saw how easily state-of-the-art design standards and community plans were pushed aside by campaign contributors and big developers.

If you don’t intervene in the operation of land markets, you’ll usually end up producing the opposite result from what you intended. Over time, for instance, improvements in urban public space raise home values and tend to become amenity subsidies for wealthier people. In dynamic land markets and central locations, nonprofits can’t afford to buy land for low-income housing. Struggling artists and hipsters inadvertently become the shock troops of gentrification and soon can’t afford to live in the neighborhoods and warehouse districts they invigorated. Affordable housing and jobs move inexorably further apart and the inner-city crisis ends up in places like San Bernardino.

If you concede that the stabilization of land values is the precondition for long-term democratic planning, there are two major nonrevolutionary solutions. George’s was the most straightforward: execute land monopolists and profiteers with a single tax of 100 percent on increases in unimproved land values. The other alternative is not as radical but has been successfully implemented in other advanced capitalist countries: municipalize strategic parts of the land inventory for affordable housing, parks and form-giving greenbelts.

The use of eminent domain for redevelopment, we should recall, was originally intended to transform privately owned slums into publicly owned housing. At the end of the Second World War, when progressives were a majority in city government, Los Angeles adopted truly visionary plans for both public housing and rational suburban growth. What then happened is well known: a municipal counter-revolution engineered by the LA Times. As a result, local governments continued to use eminent domain but mainly to transfer land from small owners to corporations and banks.

Fast-forward to the 1980s. A new opportunity emerged. Downtown redevelopment was devouring hundreds of millions of dollars of diverted taxes, but its future was bleak. A few years before, Reyner Banham had proclaimed that Downtown was dead or at least irrelevant. If the Bradley administration had had the will, it could have municipalized the Spring-Main Street corridor at rock-bottom market prices. Perhaps ten million square feet would have become available for family apartments, immigrant small businesses, public markets, and the like, at permanently controlled affordable rents.

I once asked Kurt Meyer, a corporate architect who had been chairman of the Community Redevelopment Agency, about this. He lived up Beachwood Canyon below the Hollywood Sign. We used to meet for breakfast because he enjoyed yarning about power and property in LA, and this made him a unique source for my research at the time. He told me that downtown elites were horrified by the unexpected revitalization of the Broadway corridor by Mexican businesses and shoppers, and the last thing they wanted was a populist downtown.

He also answered a question that long vexed me. “Kurt, why this desperate, all-consuming priority to have the middle class live downtown?” “Mike, do you know anything about leasing space in high-rise buildings?” “Not really.” “Well, the hardest part to rent is the ground floor: to extract the highest value, you need a resident population. You can’t just have office workers going for breakfast and lunch; you need night time, twenty-four hour traffic.” I don’t know whether this was really an adequate explanation but it certainly convinced me that planners and activists need a much deeper understanding of the game.

In the event, the middle class has finally come downtown but only to bring suburbia with them. The hipsters think they’re living in the real thing, but this is purely faux urbanism, a residential mall. Downtown is not the heart of the city, it’s a luxury lifestyle pod for the same people who claim Silverlake is the “Eastside” or that Venice is still bohemian.

Cuff: Why do you call it suburbia?

Davis: Because the return to the center expresses the desire for urban space and crowds without allowing democratic variety or equal access. It’s fool’s gold, and gentrification has taken the place of urban renewal in displacing the poor. Take Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris’s pioneering study of the privatization of space on the top of Bunker Hill. Of course, your museum patron or condo resident feels at home, but if you’re a Salvadorian skateboarder, man, you’re probably headed to Juvenile Hall."

…

"Jennifer Wolch: Absolutely. However it’s an important question particularly for the humanities students, the issue of subjectivity makes them reticent to make proposals.

Davis: But, they have skills. Narrative is an important part of creating communities. People’s stories are key, especially about their routines. It seems to me that there are important social science skills, but the humanities are important particularly because of stories. I also think a choreographer would be a great analyst of space and kind of an imagineer for using space.

I had a long talk with Richard Louv one day about his Last Child in the Woods, one of the most profound books of our time, a meditation on what it means for kids to lose contact with nature, with free nomadic unorganized play and adventure. A generation of mothers consigned to be fulltime chauffeurs, ferrying kids from one commercial distraction or over-organized play date to another. I grew up in eastern San Diego County, on the very edge of the back country, and once you did your chores (a serious business in those days), you could hop on your bike and set off like Huck Finn. There was a nudist colony in Harbison Canyon about twelve miles away, and we’d take our bikes, push them uphill for hours and hours in the hope of peeking through the fence. Like all my friends, I got a .22 (rifle) when I turned twelve. We did bad things to animals, I must confess, but we were free spirits, hated school, didn’t worry about grades, kept our parents off our backs with part-time jobs and yard work, and relished each crazy adventure and misdemeanor. Since I moved back to San Diego in 2002, I have annual reunions with the five or six guys I’ve known since second grade in 1953. Despite huge differences in political beliefs and religion, we’re still the same old gang.

And gangs were what kept you safe and why mothers didn’t have to worry about play dates or child molesters. I remember even in kindergarten—we lived in the City Heights area of San Diego at that time—we had a gang that walked to school together and played every afternoon. Just this wild group of little boys and girls, seven or eight of us, roaming around, begging pennies to buy gum at the corner store. Today the idea of unsupervised gangs of children or teenagers sounds like a law-and-order problem. But it’s how communities used to work and might still work. Aside from Louv, I warmly recommend The Child in the City by the English anarchist Colin Ward. A chief purpose of architecture, he argues, should be to design environments for unprogrammed fun and discovery."

…

"Wolch: We have one last question, about your young adult novels. Whenever we assign something from City of Quartz or another of your disheartening pieces about LA, it’s hard not to worry that the students will leave the class and jump off of a cliff! But your young adult novels seem to capture some amount of an alternative hopeful future.

Davis: Gee, you shouldn’t be disheartened by my books on LA. They’re just impassioned polemics on the necessity of the urban left. And my third LA book, Magical Urbanism, literally glows with optimism about the grassroots renaissance going on in our immigrant neighborhoods. But to return to the two adolescent “science adventure” novels I wrote for Viggo Mortensen’s wonderful Perceval Press. Above all they’re expressions of longing for my oldest son after his mother moved him back to her native Ireland. The heroes are three real kids: my son, his step-brother, and the daughter of our best friends when I taught at Stony Brook on Long Island. Her name is Julia Monk, and she’s now a wildlife biologist doing a Ph.D. at Yale on pumas in the Andes. I’m very proud that I made her the warrior-scientist heroine of the novels, because it was an intuition about her character that she’s made real in every way—just a remarkable young person."]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2016-01-04T04:08:35+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[[via: https://tinyletter.com/metafoundry/letters/metafoundry-54-nominative-determinism ]

"In the Atlantic, Julie Beck has a great new piece on "How Friendships Change in Adulthood." [http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/10/how-friendships-change-over-time-in-adulthood/411466/ ] It will ring true for Vox readers of, uh, a certain age. Like my age, for instance. Old, is what I'm saying.

I do think, however, that Beck left out an interesting piece of the puzzle. Our ability to form and maintain friendships is shaped in crucial ways by the physical spaces in which we live. "Land use," as it's rather aridly known, shapes behavior and sociality. And in America we have settled on patterns of land use that might as well have been designed to prevent spontaneous encounters, the kind out of which rich social ties are built.

We get by with a little less help from our friends

It's a familiar tale that Beck tells: Early in life, friendships are central to our development and sense of self. This is true right up through to those early post-collegiate years, when everyone is starting out in their professional lives.

And then people get married. They have kids. Their parents get older and need more care. They settle into careers. All those obligations — spouses, kids, family, work — are things we have to do. Friendships are things we choose to do. And that means, when time contracts and things get busier, friendships get bumped.

So as we get older, time with friends tapers off. "[In a study we did,] we asked people to tell us the story of the last person they became friends with, how they transitioned from acquaintance to friend," researcher Emily Langan told Beck. "It was interesting that people kind of struggled":

<blockquote>In a set of interviews he did in 1994 with middle-aged Americans about their friendships, [researcher William] Rawlins [of Ohio University] wrote that, "an almost tangible irony permeated these adults' discussions of close or ‘real’ friendship." They defined friendship as "being there" for each other, but reported that they rarely had time to spend with their most valued friends, whether because of circumstances, or through the age-old problem of good intentions and bad follow-through: "Friends who lived within striking distance of each other found that… scheduling opportunities to spend or share some time together was essential," Rawlins writes. "Several mentioned, however, that these occasions often were talked about more than they were accomplished."</blockquote>

This is a sad story. People almost universally report that friendships are important to their happiness and well-being. They don't want to lose touch with friends and stop making new ones. They lament it constantly. (I can testify to all of this firsthand.)

But as the habits of family and work settle in, friendships become an effort, and as every tired working parent knows, optional effort tends to get triaged.

Is this an inevitable state of affairs?"]]></description>
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    <title>Metafoundry 54: Nominative Determinism</title>
    <dc:date>2016-01-04T03:45:12+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["EPICYCLES: 

[…]

Probably what I appreciate most about the holiday break is not commuting. When I started driving in suburban Boston, I almost immediately generated a working hypothesis about why dense urban areas tend to lean left politically and why suburban areas lean right (in my hometown of Toronto, there was a pronounced political divide between the city proper and the surrounding '905ers', named after the area code for the immediate suburbs). Living in a city teaches you that strangers can co-exist and even cooperate (like everyone standing aside to let subway passengers disembark, for example). But if you live in the suburbs, your primary interaction with strangers is almost certainly in your car, and cars are sociopathy machines: people do many things in cars (like cut into a line) that they would never do on foot. Driving in the suburbs sends the message that, given the opportunity, a significant fraction of people put their own interests first regardless of the effect on others, so it doesn't seem like a big step to deciding that you need political systems that do similarly to ensure that you don't lose out to the people around you. Whereas living in cities, especially ones with good public transit, make it clear that strangers can work together and that homophily is not a requirement for everyone to benefit from shared resources; hence, left-wing. Getting a few days' break from driving definitely helps me with that seasonal 'good will towards one and all' thing. [While we're into amateur theories of political sociology, I'm a fan of the zombie apocalypse vs utopian future [http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/04/a-thrivesurvive-theory-of-the-political-spectrum/ ] dichotomy.]

ON FRIENDSHIPS, SOCIAL MEDIA, AND HOUSING: Speaking of the suburbs, I was struck by this article [http://www.vox.com/2015/10/28/9622920/housing-adult-friendship ] on how American choices in land use affect their ability of adults to make and maintain friendships: the norms of single-family homes and driving mean that social interactions need to be deliberately scheduled (or, in many sad cases, not scheduled). The evidence is that there are two key requirements for friendships to form: repeated, spontaneous interactions, and an environment where people can confide in each other. There's been a lot of discussion in my circles recently about the modes and affordances of social media sites, and a quiet exodus from public Twitter to small private accounts, or to Slack, or to mailing lists, or to, yes, newsletters. For many of us, Twitter was--and remains--an excellent place for those repeated, spontaneous interactions. But it's shifted from the 'small world growth phase' [http://hlwiki.slais.ubc.ca/index.php/File:SNSPrivacy.png ] to one where our experience is dominated by context collapse [http://hlwiki.slais.ubc.ca/index.php/Context_collapse_in_social_media ]. It's therefore no longer a safe environment for that second component of a nascent friendship, sharing with others, as the norms of civil inattention [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_inattention ] fail to keep pace with the site's phenomenal growth (This was most memorably demonstrated to me when a well-known author and speaker jumped into a conversation that a friend of mine and I were having about relationships to inform us--and the rest of his many followers--that 'women like bad boys'. Welp.) So this type of trust-building personal sharing is moving to more private fora. In my case, because I travel a fair bit, that includes the offline world. This use of Twitter and travel probably goes a long way to explaining why I'm an outlier in that, while I have a few good friends that I made in and kept from my teens and early twenties, I also have a number of very close friends that I've made in the last five years or so (the second major reason is likely because I do live in a dense urban walkshed where I run into friends spontaneously, in a city that draws out-of-town friends to visit). But I'm interested in seeing how people use different types of social media differently in the near future."]]></description>
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    <title>How urbanisation can be a friend to birds – John M Marzluff – Aeon</title>
    <dc:date>2014-10-09T20:13:22+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Human sprawl is usually a threat to wildlife, but birds buck the trend. Can we help biodiversity take wing in our suburbs?"

…

"I am not claiming that suburban sprawl is the answer to our conservation prayers: many species of sensitive and rare birds could never survive in our ’burbs. Even fewer animals that crawl or walk, such as mammals, reptiles and amphibians, manage to live long among us. And, where terrestrial biological diversity is greatest – in the magnificent tropical rainforests – biodiversity is steadily lost with progressive development. But development can enrich local areas by providing what many tolerant species require. Although ensuring global diversity still requires that we leave undisturbed space elsewhere for sensitive species, even then, the political will to create such reserves depends on our experiences with local diversity."

…

"The response of birds to urbanisation is only just beginning. Humans began living in cities around 5,000 years ago. Today, more than half of all people are urbanites. As exploiters and adapters learn and evolve strategies to survive among us, I expect to see new and stronger co-evolved relationships between people and other city animals. As well as kindling a diverse urban biota, it might even create unforeseen species.

One of the world’s oldest and largest cities illustrates what the future might hold for birds. Crows, which are supremely intelligent and innovative, thrive in most northern cities. In Japan’s capital Tokyo, the jungle crow has developed an array of cultural traditions well-suited to city life. Some crows gather walnuts, but because their shells are too tough to crack open by beak, the crows place them where passing cars can become nutcrackers. Other crows that live in the inner city, where the sticks necessary for nest-building are rare, routinely pilfer clothes hangers that they bend and weave into unique nests.

In A Sand County Almanac (1949), Aldo Leopold, the founding father of wildlife science, noted that, because we view land as a commodity rather than a community to which we belong, we're incapable of loving and respecting it. Perhaps nowhere is this more evident than in our cities and suburbs, where a small parcel of land and the home built on it is a substantial investment. But the economic value of land need not be incompatible with its ecological value; after all, houses fetch higher prices in tree-filled subdivisions where birds flourish. Letting your lawn go wild (which benefits butterflies) reduces the cost of maintenance. And surrounding metropolitan areas with a healthy, vegetated watershed saves millions of dollars every year in water purification costs.

Even without monetary incentives, experiencing nature right outside the door builds empathy. In East Brunswick, New Jersey, and Palo Alto, California, residents appalled at the roadway slaughter of newts and salamanders, created safe passageways for them in the form of small tunnels or temporary road closures. Scientists at the Smithsonian Institution have stirred up a passion for conservation in Washington, DC, by involving residents in their suburban bird research. The more personal a bird becomes to a human – by tagging it, or simply discovering its nest – the easier it is to make sacrifices on its behalf."

…

"My enthusiasm for wilderness remains intact, but it’s become part of a broader conservation ethic that places equal value on nearby nature. Wondering and learning from our urban ecosystem teaches us to value nature in its broadest sense. In our cities and backyards, we experience how natural processes pay economic, spiritual and biological dividends. Noticing the responses of animals and plants to our actions provides a glimpse into the creative power of natural selection. As our appreciation for nature and the ecological and evolutionary processes that shape it grows from direct experience, our gardens work symbiotically with wilderness to inform our land ethic and conserve the full range of life."]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2014-03-25T04:53:27+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[[Found in Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes: http://www.amazon.com/Worlds-Away-John-Archer/dp/0935640908 ]

"AB: It’s the old cliché, but a picture is worth a thousand words. The symbolism around an image or around a building is so much stronger. Images tend to be more specific, and that carries with it much more baggage, while statistics and theories seem more abstract to most people.

TM: Surely people pass in their grocery store, or at the gas station, the new suburbanite: the immigrant, the African American family, or the Indian family, or whomever. But it might not really register. Although I don’t believe that artistic representation of something necessarily endows it with additional value, the fact that an artist pays attention to suburbia might cause a visitor to stop and say, “Wait a minute. If this is important or interesting enough for an artist to be exploring it, or for an architect to be thinking about it, then it must be meaningful, and maybe I need to stop and think about my own situation, my own neighborhood, my own environment.”

KS: And beyond that, you have work here that represents a rich critique. In what ways do you see the exhibition exploring, for example, the increasing cultural diversity of suburbia?

AB: Artist Laura Migliorino, who lives here in Minneapolis, travels past suburban development every day and was intrigued because she watched the sprawl happen—it just follows you to your workplace, down the highway, and it evolves over the years (pages 33–37). And then one day she decided to explore it. She started asking to photograph people there, and was surprised by the diversity she found. Some of that diversity is due to the fact that most immigrants used to settle in urban areas, in the city, which was the traditional place because it was the most convenient and cheapest place to live. Today, the settlement pattern is very different—now it’s suburban—and for different reasons.

TM: It’s also where the jobs are. Most of the job growth since the 1980s has been in the suburbs.

AB: And when you don’t have great public transportation, you have to live closer to work. Some of that might be fueled by basic housing needs. If you have an Asian immigrant culture that is based around multigenerational family life, and the family is all living under one roof (or wants to), then the house type that you’re looking for might be a first-ring suburban house. It’s a larger structure, there are many bedrooms, and it’s at a price point that is more affordable.

TM: Or people might build another structure on their property to accommodate multigenerational families or multiple individuals, not related, living within one house. One of the interesting things is that many of the conditions people thought they were leaving behind in the city now occur in older suburbs. Infrastructure is getting old, taxes are going up, and immigration is increasing density and diversity. In some places, this has led to overt hostility—it’s upending all the expectations of people who moved to the suburbs thirty or forty years ago.

KS: There are also the retail battles. If you’re going to fashion a new retail district in a culturally diverse suburb like Fremont, California, which has become an ethnoburb with large Chinese and Indian populations, what kind of retail will there be? Will there be a diverse range of restaurants and grocery stores, or will it be anchored with big box retail or national chains? There was some tension over this a few years ago. But then there’s architect Teddy Cruz . . .

AB: I was also going to bring him up because he offers a good example of how looking at patterns of habitation and dwelling in Tijuana might affect suburban development in San Diego and vice-versa (page 120).

TM: He’s very interested in not eradicating, or obliterating, the local immigrant culture’s particular practices and traditions, but rather allowing the architecture to respond to them and privilege them. As someone who is involved in community development, I know how very complicated it can be, and the thing that most fascinates me about Teddy’s work is the process-based nature of it. And this is what makes it so challenging to represent: he describes it as triangulation among the citizens, the architects, and the city government, trying to convince the city to accommodate these situations that fall outside the mental framework of what is an appropriate way to live, or what is an appropriate way to build. It’s multigenerational; it celebrates communal living outdoors. Some of the other architectural projects in the exhibition are actually rather neutral in the way they incorporate thinking about changing demographics. They’re not so much responding to a specific kind of population as they are responding to a specific physical and economic condition.

KS: Why do you think that is?

TM: Well, mostly it’s a matter of the scale of the condition those particular projects address: a dead mall, for example, or a larger exurban situation rather than a single residence. These are theoretical projects that could be realized.

AB: They tend to be pragmatic, yet visionary. And they’re not formally driven, which doesn’t mean that they look bad! It’s thinking about occupiable space, rather than simply the purity of space, for example.

TM: Another thing about the architectural projects is their incremental nature, as in the proposals of Lateral Architecture (page 235) and Interboro (page 225). I think this marks a big change in architectural thinking; whether or not it filters through the profession in general remains to be seen. Both of those projects accept given conditions and propose changes that either respond to those conditions and make lemonade out of lemons, as it were, or in some other way try to massage the condition.

AB: It’s very tactical, looking for opportunities when or where you can. Lateral Architecture, for example, examines the space between big boxes in what are called power centers and ways that it can be occupied or programmed differently. It’s not Victor Gruen’s utopian vision of the regional shopping mall. In fact, Interboro studied the activity patterns of a dead mall. The mall is not truly dead because people are still there; not a lot of people, of course, but it’s more about a mall’s afterlife, or half-life, while it is in economic transition.

TM: And some of the mall activity is very illicit. Recognizing that fact is a much more realistic way of thinking about any kind of change than trying to completely transform something.

KS: Another thing that strikes me with somebody like Teddy Cruz is that he is opening up opportunities for others to continue to transform the landscape.

AB: Exactly. He’s ceding control, or perhaps better, creating a framework. It’s not about mastery. You create a structure, and allow it to evolve and develop on its own terms. As an architect you have to be okay with that, but it demands a strong framework.

TM: The subtext is not the typical attitude that drove modernist planning: “This is all wrong. We have to change it.” Lateral and Interboro are saying, “Okay, the status quo might not be great, but this is what it is. What can we do with it, rather than trying to transform the attitudes that led to this situation?” I think that’s pretty radical, actually.

KS: It raises the issue of critique from the outside in as opposed to the inside out—about artists and architects who might have grown up in suburbia, who might be living in suburban conditions, engaging with them as they’re producing and examining the increasing complexity of their reactions to suburbia. Are you still seeing a cultural vanguard’s reaction very much from the outside?

AB: The cultural vanguard’s negative critique of suburbia, I believe, forms the normative position on suburbia. However, lived experience and firsthand knowledge of the place can produce more nuanced or complex, and even contradictory, reactions."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["These adjustments all hinge on the re-localization and downscaling of the major activities that add up to civilized life: we have to grow more of our food closer to home (as oil-based agri-business flounders); we have to move out of failing suburbia into more compact neighborhoods and towns; we have to prepare for the difficult, necessary contraction of our overgrown giant urban metroplexes (New York City in particular); we have to re-organize commerce away from the monocultures of car-dependent big box corporate despotism and rebuild resilient Main Street infrastructures of trade, and we have to do all these things with a kind of conscious and deliberate earnestness that amounts to a national sense of purpose—something sorely absent in these baleful days of Kardashians, universal obesity and comprehensive American anomie. In short, we have to become a lot less like New Jersey."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The Center for Advanced Urbanism is committed to fostering a rigorous design culture for the large scale; by focusing our disciplinary conversations about architecture, urban planning, and systems thinking, not about the problems of yesterday, but of tomorrow. Alan Berger, Director of Research, and myself are motivated by the radical changes in our environment, and the role that high design and research can play in addressing these. We embrace conversations with the world's absolute top experts in planning, engineering, and technology, all at MIT, to feed and foster the growing field of large-scale design and research. We take pride in the fact that participants in the center do not just talk about things; they do projects, build things, and actively change our society out in the real world; and then come together to learn from each other's experiences, publish, and debate about future directions. The Center for Advanced Urbanism has been established at the initiative of the Dean and Chairs of the School of Architecture and Planning and reflects a renewed drive to excellence in urbanism.

—Alexander D'Hooghe, Director, Center for Advanced Urbanism"

[A video introduction is here: http://cau.mit.edu/news/cau-releases-urbanism-film and here https://vimeo.com/59435045 ]]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["About a third of our malls are still thriving, and those are the biggest, newest ones. But America is no longer building many new highways, which means we’ve stopped creating prime new locations for mall development. Some of the earliest amenities of the enclosed mall—air-conditioning!—no longer impress us. And the demographics of suburbia have changed dramatically. Malls draw the largest share of their customers from teenagers, and the baby boomers who largely populate suburbia no longer have teenagers at home.

For all these reasons, the suburban mall of Gruen’s plan appears to be victim of more than just the recession. Dunham-Jones, who has tracked this trend in her book Retrofitting Suburbia, estimates that more than 40 malls nationwide have been targeted for significant redevelopment. And she can count 29 that have already been repurposed, or that have construction underway."

[via and more: http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/deja_vu/2012/07/mall-madness.php ]
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    <title>Why You Should Be Skeptical of Statistics on City vs. Suburban Population Growth - Arts &amp; Lifestyle - The Atlantic Cities</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["One of the reasons it's frustrating that you just hear about city versus suburbs is there's so much heterogeneity of suburbs, that it's really not fair to treat all suburbs as the same. Some suburbs are dense. Some are old streetcar suburbs. Some have been trying, through transit investment and investment in main streets downtown, to create walkable denser communities. This has been happening throughout the country.

What we need to do is stop looking at these crude city-versus-suburb divides and we need to start looking at where is the growth actually happening. Is it happening in places where we'd expect — are people voting with their feet, so to speak, to go to these denser places? Is it actually the case that people want more urban existence? I think we'd probably find evidence that's the case. That does not mean the overwhelming majority of Americans want that. One of the issues is how big of a market is there for the urbanist ideal. We just don't know."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I feel like a project is successful if we have had substantive encounters with people, if we have created spaces where a kind of exchange—whether it’s family history, or talking about why something should or shouldn’t be in an art museum, or sometimes it’s just swapping recipes—some form of animated or engaged dialogue comes out, or some sort of story emerges.  It means we learn something, a story can be brought forward from that, that’s when things are successful.  Another high-five moment comes when there is something compelling to look at.  A lot of times when you see a social practice show, it’s either a room full of crap to read, or it looks like a place where they had a party and you didn’t get to go.  I’ve been to a lot of those, and they’re not satisfying!  You either wish they had just printed a book you could take home and read in your own chair—because it’s not very comfortable to sit in a museum—or you wish that you’d been at the party."

[via: http://randallszott.org/2012/05/25/ted-purves-aesthetics-social-practice-personal-economies/ ]]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Ako Castuera is a painter, sculptor, and textile artist. For Realms (art exhibition at Giant Robot 2 LA), she has turned her focus to work on paper with a variety of media, primarily using watercolor and gouache. The works continue her ongoing interest in land, the life within it, and the life it sustains. "Suburban tracts sprawl over hills and are at once picturesque, parasitic, and fragile. They coexist with dinosaur like animal forms that suggest prehistoric life," she says. "Dinosaurs have always inspired awe and fed fantasies of the past. Their extinction forces contemplation of the future, of what's in store for the land, animals, and humans all." Ako studied at CCA, and is based in Los Angeles where she works as a writer/storyboard artist on the animated television show, Adventure Time."]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2012-02-22T03:50:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/sympathy-for-the-suburbs</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["But Foreclosed seethes with disdain for the suburbs, and the lack of an empathetic understanding of how the suburbs function and are changing, ultimately makes the exhibit look less visionary than ignorant…

These radical visions that are so insensitive to the suburbs remind me of the Modernist public housing projects that were once foisted on inner cities. Created by well-intentioned but essentially ignorant architects and planners, those buildings made sense in theory but not in practice. They didn’t respond to the rhythms and needs of the people who would be housed there, because the architects didn’t really respect or understand the lives of poor people. MoMA should have found some architects who could love and live in the suburbs, showing us the way to make the most of suburban housing instead of wishing it didn’t exist."]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2012-02-05T19:59:01+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["When I started thinking about it … I realized that in many ways, in the post-war period, Southern California was the ideal of what the American dream was going to look like. At the center of that was the swimming pool, and suburban expansion, and the concept of everybody living in this place that didn’t have the danger of nature, but had all the benefits of the natural landscape. A place that was away from the city, but at the same time felt domesticated. I started thinking about the pool as the central icon of that both real and imaginary place. And it grew from there."]]></description>
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    <link>http://www.newstatesman.com/scitech/2011/08/silicon-valley-computer</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In the 1980s, Silicon Valley was populated by lefties and hippies who dreamed of a computer revolution. One of the pioneers recalls how the internet was born."

"What is strangest in the recent waves of young arrivals in Silicon Valley is that they tend no longer to be downtrodden geniuses rejected in the playing of social status games, but sterling alpha males. Legions of perfect specimens seem to have grown up in manicured childhoods, nothing scrappy about them. When children started to be raised perfectly in the 1990s, chauffeured from one play date to the next, I wondered what world they would want as adults. Socialism? Facebook and similar designs seem to me continuations of the artificial order we gave children during the boom years."

[via: http://ayjay.tumblr.com/post/9474103819/what-is-strangest-in-the-recent-waves-of-young ]]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["As far as the similarities from one urban circumstance to another, there is a case to be made for the emergence of a global typology and the slow transformation of American cities toward a global model. White flight, the demographic phenomenon that defined American cities in the 2nd half of the twentieth century, is finally unwinding itself. Witness the rise of the "hipster," which is really just a polite and racially sublimated way of talking about white culture as urban culture. Alongside this, we are witnessing the rise of the black and immigrant suburbs. American cities are moving in the direction of operating more like European and South American cities. The latter part of the twentieth century in this country was an anomaly compared to global urban and suburban development, and that historical moment is over."]]></description>
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    <title>The American suburbs are a giant Ponzi scheme | Grist</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Since the end of WWII, our cities & towns have experienced growth using three primary mechanisms:

1. Transfer payments between governments: where the federal or state government makes a direct investment in growth at the local level, such as funding a water or sewer system expansion.

2. Transportation spending: where transportation infrastructure is used to improve access to a site that can then be developed.

3. Public and private-sector debt: where cities, developers, companies, & individuals take on debt as part of the development process, whether during construction or through the assumption of a mortgage.

In each of these mechanisms, the local unit of government benefits from the enhanced revenues associated with new growth. But it also typically assumes the long-term liability for maintaining the new infrastructure. This exchange -- a near-term cash advantage for a long-term financial obligation -- is one element of a Ponzi scheme…"]]></description>
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    <title>James Enos talks about Clairemont on Vimeo</title>
    <dc:date>2011-06-29T08:53:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://vimeo.com/12319274</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[His informal presentation on the critique of Clairemont from Pecha Kucha on April 20th. The piece discussed in his rant is currently on show at MCASD in La Jolla's "Here Not There" opening.]]></description>
<dc:subject>1951 tracthomes clairemont jamesenos informal sandiego architecture herenotthere mcasd pechakucha housing alterations art design vernacular entitlement dwellmagazine dwell clairemonterasure suburbs suburbia parametricarchitecture juxtaposition realestate commentary tracthousing criticalpractice whatwewant socal buildingboom southpark humor</dc:subject>
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    <title>Poems and related texts [&quot;Everything makes more Everything makes more Everything makes more Everything makes more Everything makes more&quot;, Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, 1975]</title>
    <dc:date>2011-06-04T20:14:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://skyeyeliner.endorphin.ch/blumfeld_gedichte.html#23</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[[Google translation] "The storytellers go on, the auto industry carries on, the workers continue to
Governments continue to rock & roll singer keep going, the prices go, the
Paper further makes the animals & trees to keep going, day & night carries on, the moon rises,
the sun rises, her eyes go door to go, his mouth opens, one speaks, one does
Signs, signs on the walls of houses, signs on the street signs in the machinery that moves
are movements in the rooms…
old newspapers blowing across an empty parking gray, wild bushes & grass grow in the
are left behind debris land in the middle of the inner city, a construction fence has been painted blue, to
the fence is a sign nailed to stick posters of prohibition…
go on, go on the elevators, the walls of houses continue, the city makes
Next, the suburbs continue ... All the questions continue, as will make all the answers.
The space will continue. I make eye on & look at a white piece of paper."]]></description>
<dc:subject>1975 via:cervus poetry german rolfdieterbrinkman storytelling writing continuity suburbs life</dc:subject>
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    <title>Shaping the City: Seeking a new template for truly smart growth - The Washington Post</title>
    <dc:date>2011-04-25T05:51:35+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/realestate/shaping-the-city-seeking-a-new-template-for-truly-smart-growth/2011/04/15/AFQShSPE_story.html</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["A more demographically complex society induces cultural and economic shifts, including perceptions about urban life. Reportedly a majority of Americans, especially young adults and senior citizens, now prefer living in walkable neighborhoods and sustainably designed communities characterized by diverse land uses and a broad array of civic amenities. Their close-to-home wish list includes: transit access; plenty of shopping; cultural, recreational and entertainment venues; parks and playgrounds; good public schools; health-care services, and job opportunities. Affordable housing is also on the list.<br />
Shifting demographics, along with increasing consumer interest in a more-urban existence, are redefining the real estate market. This requires rethinking how we plan, regulate, design and build — or rebuild — parts of suburbs and the cities they encircle. To respond to evolving market forces, new templates for truly smart growth are needed. Such templates must do the following…"]]></description>
<dc:subject>cities trends urban urbanism sprawl urbanplanning smartgrowth us suburbs suburbia housing walking publictransit economics change 2011 rogerlewis walkability diversity sustainability community neighborhoods</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.peterme.com/2011/04/22/suburbs-and-cubicles/">
    <title>Suburbs and Cubicles : peterme.com</title>
    <dc:date>2011-04-23T23:55:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.peterme.com/2011/04/22/suburbs-and-cubicles/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The cubicle farm strikes me as the real-world embodiment of the dehumanization represented in org charts. I’m reading Douglas Rushkoff’s Life, Inc., about the rise of corporatism. He mentions the flight to the suburbs (also mentioned in The McDonaldization of Society) and I wondered about the connection between the suburbs and the cubicle farm. Both contributed to the individualizing of America, our separation from one another.. Both strike me as products of Weberian rationalization, in that tract homes and cubicle farms are models of efficiency and quantifiability from the stand point of production… but ultimately isolating and damaging from the perspective of those who have to live in and use them."]]></description>
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    <title>Blueprints for a Better ‘Burb - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2010-07-25T16:41:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/22/blueprints-for-a-better-burb/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["[The] prevailing vision contradicts the reality of suburbia today. There may be white picket fences & home owners associations in common, but beyond that, “suburb” has outlived its usefulness as a descriptive term — and as a model for future planning, at least in its current incarnation. Suburbs continue to be designed for homogeneity even though they’re no longer homogeneous at all, & in fact have become increasingly varied in type, density, infrastructure & demographics..."

[via: http://varnelis.net/blog/blueprints_for_a_better_burb ]]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://snarkmarket.com/2005/555">
    <title>The Places I Have Come to Fear the Most « Snarkmarket</title>
    <dc:date>2010-05-04T18:27:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://snarkmarket.com/2005/555</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I have a reflex­ive dis­like of sub­urbs. I grew up in Orlando, in one of its sub­urbs stacked on sub­urbs, all in dis­tant orbit around a tiny cen­ter of faux-urbanity we called down­town. (Which in turn hov­ered in dis­tant orbit around a giant cen­ter of faux-reality we called Dis­ney World.)

Orlando feels hor­ri­bly life­less to me. I often say that in Orlando, you have to drive 20 min­utes to get to the con­ve­nience store. I can’t think of a sin­gle good Mom-&-Pop shop around where I grew up. When I go back to visit, there are no places where my friends and I can sit idly and chat until the wee hours. For a while, we seri­ously took to fre­quent­ing the lob­bies of the nicer hotels...How could any­one choose a sub­urb over a city? I ask myself. Cities engen­der cre­ativ­ity and comity & effi­ciency. The Renais­sance could never have taken place in a sub­ur­ban­ized Europe.

But I occa­sion­ally get jolted out of my city-worship when I encounter a bit of real­ity like..."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>mattthompson snarkmarket cities suburbs 2005 orlando boston washingtondc schools parenting urban sustainability nyc suburbia vibrancy efficiency invention renaissance creativity dc</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/2010/03/commuting.php">
    <title>Commuting : The Frontal Cortex</title>
    <dc:date>2010-04-03T06:58:31+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/2010/03/commuting.php</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["David Brooks, summarizing the current state of happiness research: "The daily activity most injurious to happiness is commuting. According to one study, being married produces a psychic gain equivalent to more than $100,000 a year." In other words, the best way to make yourself happy is to have a short commute and get married. I'm afraid science can't tell us very much about marriage so let's talk about commuting. A few years ago, the Swiss economists Bruno Frey and Alois Stutzer announced the discovery of a new human foible, which they called "the commuters paradox". They found that, when people are choosing where to live, they consistently underestimate the pain of a long commute. This leads people to mistakenly believe that the big house in the exurbs will make them happier, even though it might force them to drive an additional hour to work."
]]></description>
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    <title>BLDGBLOG Expedition to the Geoglyphs of Nowhere - Eventbrite</title>
    <dc:date>2010-02-03T04:48:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://obscuraday-california-city.eventbrite.com/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In the desert 100 miles northeast of Los Angeles is a suburb abandoned in advance of itself: the unfinished extension of a place called California City. Visible from above now as a series of badly paved streets carved into the dust and gravel, the outer edges of California City are like some peculiarly American response to the Nazca Lines. The uninhabited street plan has become an abstract geoglyph—unintentional land art visible from airplanes—not a thriving community at all.]]></description>
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    <title>Global Guerrillas: RC JOURNAL: The Inevitable Failure of Suburbia?</title>
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    <link>http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2009/11/rc-journal-the-inevitable-failure-of-suburbia.html</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I start with the view that a suburban town is a community and not just type of architecture.  People/families live their lives in these towns.  So, as a community, it's ability to survive/thrive is a function of its adaptability.   If the future is going to be as tough as we think it is, then the question of suburbia really becomes:  are suburban communities adaptable enough to thrive in the future (as in:  becoming resilient communities).   Given the advantages of the suburban landscape (land, surface area, security, etc.) has over rural/urban in many revival scenarios (post crunch), the only existential threat to these communities appears to be the from the global financial system -- aka a foreclosure tsunami that decimates communities faster than they can reconfigure/change.  I think that problem is solvable."
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    <title>Top Twenty Finalists « ReBurbia</title>
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    <link>http://www.re-burbia.com/finalists/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><dc:subject>design architecture future planning urban cities sustainability transportation suburbs suburbia reburbia infrastructure urbanism green sprawl suburban futurism competition ideas energy</dc:subject>
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