Friction and Reactionary Politics
On the uses of "friction"
I saw this post on Substack, from Harjas Sandhu, which touches on a question I and many other urbanists have thought about: the extent to which “friction,” or discomfort, is a good thing, a kind of social glue that gets us out of our individual bubbles, and the extent to which urban life is in some ways both about conveniences (proximity to the coffee shop, to your …