et après ça, la ville

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« The point is not simply that rich and poor people live in different places through a kind of class sorting in the marketplace. The places themselves help to create wealth and poverty. »
Tags: urbanisme suburbia inégalité
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« You don’t have to be Jane Jacobs to see that many are not what we’ve always thought of us urban. If anything, they reflect suburban ideals contorted into vaguely urbanish form, a Frankenstein of supermarkets, outdoor dining, parking lots, and mock-cobblestone sidewalks. »
Tags: will doig urbanism suburbia
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« The Village at Leesburg may not feel like Williamsburg in Brooklyn or U Street in D.C., but it demonstrates how smartly county governments and developers are mimicking what feels so unique about the urban experience. »
Tags: shopping suburbia thesis urbanism
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« And by the way I admire an awful lot of the New Urbanist designs and I spent a good deal of time living in Paris and love it, but the fact is ... »

Wendell Cox on MSNBC, right before making some bullshit points about sprawl in Europe or something, then actually saying, “Cities do not grow because of fountains and designs.”
Tags: MSNBC Paris new urbanism paris suburbia urban design wendell cox urbanism
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« If you want to see this same conservatism of invention and choice on display among evangelicals, just check out your regional mega-church. It’s the one with the ginormous parking lot. »
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lettersfromhere: Map from the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard showing various degrees of suburbanization by metros over the past decade. Note that only a few places showed core population share gain. Green is “core city share” gain, orange is loss. In other words, orange equals more sprawl. Full key here:  The Urbanophile » Blog Archive » Infographic: Sprawl Is Alive and Well Urban cores are growing faster, but the suburbs are still growing more.

lettersfromhere:

Map from the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard showing various degrees of suburbanization by metros over the past decade. Note that only a few places showed core population share gain.

Green is “core city share” gain, orange is loss. In other words, orange equals more sprawl. Full key here:  The Urbanophile » Blog Archive » Infographic: Sprawl Is Alive and Well

Urban cores are growing faster, but the suburbs are still growing more.

Tags: amérique mapping suburbia
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« Traditional planning, at least as top down as Smart Growth, has shaped his or her presumably suburban neighborhood. How about, “We don’t want these socialist setback requirements”, or “Down with pinko minimum lot sizes" ? »
Tags: urbanisme suburbia