You can’t just focus on housing and transit in the core of a city, you need to focus on the physical needs of manufacturing, development and the needs that go along with them. That will clearly have a huge effect not only on the city but regional level. — Wired - Autopia
Jason Kambitsis recently interviewed Bruce Katz, the founding director of the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program. The two spoke about Katz's belief that optimizing economic structure, not urban form, is the key to revitalizing depressed cities and strengthening thriving ones.
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Wait, you mean to tell me that architecture+urban design are not the saviors of our depressed cities? You mean to tell me that the impetus of most studio coursework is wrong? You mean to tell me that our over-inflated sense of worth in society is false?
And I believed architecture school!
Classmate is doing his thesis on this EXACT topic, Detroit and all
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