The top ten influences on the American metropolis
A list of the top ten influences on America cities over the past 50 years compiled by urban historian Robert Fishman, who conducted a survey at the end of the last millennium of members of the Society for American City and Regional Planning History. [Image from Geography 101, arrived via Losing Our Cool: Uncomfortable Truths About Our Air Conditioned World]
“The extreme residential segregation that most American cities contain is itself a major obstacle to social mobility -- not only in terms of economic opportunities, but in the very fabric of how different groups understand the social world around them.”
—Daniel Little
Get Out of Town: Has the celebration of cities gone too far?
newyorker.comIn 2011, Nicholas Lemann wrote on how ‘‘the new urban optimism leaves a lot of questions unanswered.’’ He also teased the various urbanologists for playground squabbles. ‘‘Edward Glaeser considers Richard Florida’s celebration of cities sentimental and unrigorous compared with his own celebration of cities.’’
