The Deleted Scenes - New and Old #111
America’s Anti-Urban Bias, Southern Urbanism Quarterly, Bob Chapman, February 13, 2023
Why?
Chapman quotes Steven Kellert, one of the founders of the School of the Environment at Yale. “We were creating a new academic discipline, Environmental Studies,” Kellert once said. “If we’d only had a few more weeks before the first Earth Day, we would’ve included human settlement patterns in the syllabus. We should have.” This reminds me of something a classmate said back in one of my political science classes. We were discussing the idea of the Supreme Court as a weak link in our constitutional system, whether judicial review was really understood to be the court’s purview from the outset, etc. “If the summer of 1787 hadn’t been so hot, and the Founding Fathers had eked it out for another couple of weeks, maybe they’d have given this a little more thought,” someone offered. In other words, even something quite deliberately designed might not truly be consciously designed in every way. It’s sort of like this argument: “Wait, I didn’t mean that!” “But you said it!” Read the whole thing. It’s a great piece on environmentalism and urbanism and the tensions that shouldn’t be there. Rural Americans are importing tiny Japanese pickup trucks, The Economist, April 20, 2023
This is a fascinating piece about tiny pickup trucks, and how regulation can create or suppress products, without the input of consumer demand.
It’s a picture of how much more textured, interesting, and dynamic American life might be if we allowed or encouraged the smaller scale—trucks, buildings, roads, retail, cities. Everything. I think there’s something deep here. Urban planning is an inherently Catholic practice, U.S. Catholic, April 20, 2021 This is an interview with a Catholic urban planner:
Some of it is rather abstract:
And some is very brass-tacks:
It’s a fun read that takes a mostly standard progressive, YIMBYish view of planning and gives it a spiritual and philosophical backing. There’s also this piece on Catholicism and New Urbanism, with this bit I love:
The fourth item today is not an article but a piece of music: a reggae riddim from 1967, by the Soul Vendors, a Jamaican reggae band. Does it sound like a famous tune from a famous 1964 Broadway show? Enjoy. Related Reading: Thank you for reading! Please consider upgrading to a paid subscription to help support this newsletter. You’ll get a weekly subscribers-only post, plus full access to the archive: over 600 posts and growing. And you’ll help ensure more material like this! You're currently a free subscriber to The Deleted Scenes. For the full experience, upgrade your subscription. |
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