"Urbanist Sprawl" Revisited

You can't build a city out of off-the-shelf suburban parts

There’s an idea related to urbanism that I think is a little bit under-discussed/underappreciated: the “scale” problem, or the relationship between urban form/land use on the one hand, and complementary “urban-scaled” accoutrements on the other.

This issue of scale is talked about a fair amount with regard to vehicles: garbage trucks or fire trucks sized…