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The “outer boroughs” myth

November 10, 2021 By Michael Lewyn

One argument against bus lanes, bicycle lanes, congestion pricing, elimination of minimum parking requirements, or indeed almost any transportation improvement that gets in the way of high-speed automobile traffic is that such changes to the status quo might make sense in the Upper West Side, but … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Culture of Congestion, infrastructure, Michael Lewyn, Transportation, Uncategorized Tagged With: New York City

An interesting complementarity in a city: rich & poor

July 31, 2018 By Sandy Ikeda

Here's something I hadn't thought of in quite this way (but many others probably have): In a living city, space is cheap enough so that people with wacky (often "terrible") new ideas can test them out, while wealthier people in that city search for wacky new things to try out (because they've … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Author: Sandy Ikeda, Culture, Culture of Congestion Tagged With: complementarity, living city, poor, rich, wacky

Ch. 1 What is a City?: Concluding thoughts & works cited

May 31, 2018 By Sandy Ikeda

Viewing cities as spontaneous orders and not as works of art helps to explain the tradeoff between scale and order, as well as the role of time in softening the severity of that tradeoff. Complexity and creativity are at odds with scale and the comprehensiveness of design because increasing scale … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Author: Sandy Ikeda, Culture of Congestion, Jane Jacobs, planning Tagged With: spontaneous order, urban tactility

Ch. 1 What is a City?: Cities cannot be efficient

May 29, 2018 By Sandy Ikeda

Before we can correct what we think is wrong with a city, we need an appropriate standard of what is right. That standard of rightness in turn depends on our understanding how the thing we are trying to fix is supposed to work.In this regard I’m afraid neither standard macroeconomics nor … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Author: Sandy Ikeda, Culture of Congestion, Economics, Jane Jacobs Tagged With: efficiency, inefficiency, macroeconomics, microeconomics, organized complexity

Ch. 1 What is a City?: Complexity and radical ignorance

May 7, 2018 By Sandy Ikeda

First of all, Jacobs observed that the artist abstracts from life, with all its “inclusiveness” and “literally endless intricacy.” Many architects, especially those with great ambition, seem to treat urban environments as merely a canvas for their works of genius, which if not already blank needs to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Author: Sandy Ikeda, Culture of Congestion, Jane Jacobs, planning Tagged With: abstraction, complexity, local knowledge, radical ignorance, scale, tradeoff

Ch. 1 What is a City?: What a city is not (and is)

April 27, 2018 By Sandy Ikeda

As Jacobs explains in her book The Death and Life of Great American Cities: Artists, whatever their medium, make selections from the abounding materials of life, and organize these selections into works that are under the control of the artist…the essence of the process is disciplined, highly … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Author: Sandy Ikeda, Culture of Congestion, Jane Jacobs Tagged With: art, beauty, City, Hayek, spontaneous order

Ch. 1 What is a City?: Up close and personal

April 19, 2018 By Sandy Ikeda

One of the popular sports broadcasts I used to watch as a kid promised interviews with athletes that would bring them to you “up close and personal.” As I was once waiting in line to order coffee at one of my favorite local coffeehouses there were several people ahead of me. I followed the “barista” … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture and Design, Author: Sandy Ikeda, Culture of Congestion, Jane Jacobs Tagged With: Jane Jacobs, Ken-ichi Sasaki, Kevin Lynch, tactility, tokyo, Urbanism

Montaigne on Spontaneous Social Order

April 16, 2018 By Sandy Ikeda

"In fine, I see from our example that human society holds and is knit together at any cost whatever. Whatever position you set men in, they pile up and arrange themselves by moving and crowding together just as ill-matched objects, put in a bag without order, find of themselves a way to unite and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Author: Sandy Ikeda, Culture of Congestion Tagged With: art, Montaigne, spontaneous order

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