Nostalgia, Hindsight, and Opportunity

Maybe "better" and "worse" are too rigid to define the complexity of life

There are a few big questions I occasionally revisit here at this newsletter. One of them is the question of what exactly traditional or old-fashioned urbanism actually was or is. Was it dependent on a vanished stage of economic development or kind of economy? Is it possible to manifest that simply by reverse-engineering the land uses of that era?

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