Whoa! Thanks for the mention. I wrote this a few years ago after feeling frustrated with how I can only feasibly ride my bike in one side of town. Anywhere else and I risk being hit by a car. So I researched why that is, and came to some pretty interesting conclusions.
Cool! I don't know how much you are into this stuff, but what you wrote is very familiar to me but also an original framing with regard to the time period aspect. This question of why we don't build things in the way we built the places we love the most is fascinating and is one of the central questions in my work (I've been writing on these topics for about six years now).
It's something I'm much more familiar with now that I've been on the lookout for it. I wrote two other articles on this publication about Third Spaces before moving on, but it's been an interesting journey. I'll take a look at what you've written because city planning is so fascinating to me.
"I don’t see how you could have a contingent of people who love classic towns and Main Streets but also seem mystified by urbanist ideas."
Right wingers love classic old towns because they are a pure expression of private ideas and private choices to build in a certain way. They think that if urbanism is a choice embraced by a city government it's just bound to screw things up.
This looks like a great book on the history of the French settlement of the middle Mississippi and the lower Missouri rivers. I only read the first few chapters, though. I am stuck in Baltimore now, and I will probably return to St Louis and San Francisco after Philadelphia.
Whoa! Thanks for the mention. I wrote this a few years ago after feeling frustrated with how I can only feasibly ride my bike in one side of town. Anywhere else and I risk being hit by a car. So I researched why that is, and came to some pretty interesting conclusions.
Cool! I don't know how much you are into this stuff, but what you wrote is very familiar to me but also an original framing with regard to the time period aspect. This question of why we don't build things in the way we built the places we love the most is fascinating and is one of the central questions in my work (I've been writing on these topics for about six years now).
It's something I'm much more familiar with now that I've been on the lookout for it. I wrote two other articles on this publication about Third Spaces before moving on, but it's been an interesting journey. I'll take a look at what you've written because city planning is so fascinating to me.
"I don’t see how you could have a contingent of people who love classic towns and Main Streets but also seem mystified by urbanist ideas."
Right wingers love classic old towns because they are a pure expression of private ideas and private choices to build in a certain way. They think that if urbanism is a choice embraced by a city government it's just bound to screw things up.
This looks like a great book on the history of the French settlement of the middle Mississippi and the lower Missouri rivers. I only read the first few chapters, though. I am stuck in Baltimore now, and I will probably return to St Louis and San Francisco after Philadelphia.
https://archive.org/details/stlouisrisingfre0000ekbe/page/n5/mode/2up