Continuity and Innovation

How do you decide whether a thing is fundamentally old or new?

In writing about the 15-minute city idea recently, with my review and then a looser follow-up piece here, I’ve kind of focused in on one of the tensions in that idea, which is whether it is fundamentally new (innovative, revolutionary, transformative, etc.) or fundamentally old (return, restoration, rediscovery, etc.).

Here’s the bit from the follow-up p…