So many of our cities are waiting to be re-inhabited, to be improved back to their former glory. Is America capable of producing a new round of pioneers?
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The recipe for a successful residential street is simple, timeless, and requires very little costly engineering.
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Detroit native, Devita Davison, helps local food entrepreneurs get their businesses off the ground, while charting a more equitable, prosperous future for her community.
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What the final ailment for Detroit was simply doesn't matter to me. The auto-centric style of development undermined the resiliency of the city, tearing down social, political and financial strength that had made Detroit one of the world's greatest cities. Once Detroit became a fragile city, it was only a matter of time.
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How the stressors in the harsh environment of the Phoenix area have created antifragility.
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We still tend to evaluate large-scale projects based on a mountain of assumptions about associated impacts. Change the assumptions and the ‘value’ of a project can change dramatically.
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Andres Duany is an American architect and urban planner, a co-founder of the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU), and the author of several books including Suburban Nation. In this interview, Chuck Marohn and Andres Duany discuss the founding and growth of the new urbanist movement, gentrification, and the future of the suburbs.
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How to build a successful innovation district where start-ups, schools, and residents flourish.
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Instead of allowing challenges that would normally make businesses resilient to economic struggles and the forces of the market, we are doubling down on policies that create convenience -- endangering the antifragility of the whole for the sake of the unit.
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If you have an approach with a 50% chance of success or failure, would you rather it be tried out at the state level with everyone succeeding or failing at the same time? Or, would you rather it be tried out at the neighborhood level, where failures are small and contained?
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Mr. Money Mustache tells you how to get rich with bikes.
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It is much easier to convince people to make the necessary changes when the status quo is clearly not working.
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Here are 4 different types of stress that can help our cities become strong towns.
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There’s a lot of talk these days about how Texas is the new California, but you need to take that concept with a grain of salt. It’s a short term phenomenon.
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Public transit does more than just get us to our destination. It can also teach us to be better people.
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The primary fault of civil servants is the false belief that they can explain it all, solve it all, fix it all.
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Regional planning can be antifragile when it is empowered to address the quality of the system as a whole.
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Can we help cities become antifragile by changing the way they receive aid from the state?
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