Craft Urbanism

Do we simply need time to get good at old-fashioned city-building?

Here’s some food for thought:

This is really interesting—it’s a way of remembering that city-building is a craft, an art, a body of knowledge. And that body of knowledge was disrupted and largely lost in the 20th century, as cities went all in for urban renewal and tried to compete with the then-new suburbs on their own terms.

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