Humans are messy, complicated, and unpredictable: why doesn’t our street design account for that?
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How do we minimize the chance that our best intentions will go awry and leave everybody worse off? Let’s set these 3 ground rules.
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Cities are betting big on the Suburban Experiment, assuming the market or federal government will be able to bail them out. Those are bad bets and risky assumptions.
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Understanding risk and uncertainty—and the difference between the two—can help local communities face the unknown.
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How do we move beyond Team Mask vs. Team Anti-Mask? Understanding the difference between individual and cumulative risk is a start. But it’s only a start.
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One of the key thought leaders who has inspired the Strong Towns movement has an admonition and a warning for the world—about how our institutions got so fragile in the face of a crisis like the present one.
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There is no better way to discredit a campaign to reduce auto fatalities than to compare the risk of death by auto crash to the risk of death by viral pandemic.
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