{"id":3306,"date":"2013-09-21T23:08:44","date_gmt":"2013-09-22T03:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/?p=3306"},"modified":"2013-09-21T23:08:44","modified_gmt":"2013-09-22T03:08:44","slug":"density-a-vision-for-an-urban-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/2013\/09\/21\/density-a-vision-for-an-urban-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Density &#8211; a vision for an urban America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/data.worldbank.org\/indicator\/SP.URB.TOTL.IN.ZS\" target=\"_blank\">world is urbanizing<\/a>. But is it doing so in a truly urban fashion, or is it merely a way of noting that &#8216;urban&#8217; can be defined as &#8216;not rural?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>This is one of the concerns <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/?p=2960\" target=\"_blank\">Vishaan Chakrabarti brings up in his discussions of &#8216;hyperdensity&#8217;<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Country-Cities-Manifesto-Urban-America\/dp\/1935202170\/&amp;tag=arch05-20\" target=\"_blank\">his book<\/a> making the case for a truly urban future: market-driven, transit-supportive, and more dense and urban than what we have today. Chakrabarti notes that this isn&#8217;t meant to denigrate suburbanism, but to merely level the competitive playing field and to stop direct subsidy of suburbanization.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/430538\/a-country-of-cities-a-manifesto-for-an-urban-america\/\" target=\"_blank\">ArchDaily<\/a> links <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/ZBC_Pa1a6bc\" target=\"_blank\">to a video<\/a> of Chakrabarti speaking before a panel of big names in architecture and academia at Columbia University. They summarize as follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Through the compelling representation of statistics, Chakrabarti makes a concise case for the benefits of investing efforts in a development strategy that is based on dense cities. By identifying issues in modern infrastructures, current city planning policies, and paradigms within the design and construction fields, he paints a new urban landscape.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And the video:<\/p>\n[youtube\u00a0http:\/\/youtu.be\/ZBC_Pa1a6bc]\n<p>In the panel discussion, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bernard_Tschumi\" target=\"_blank\">Bernard Tschumi<\/a> notes that the ideas Chakrabarti presents are not new; to which Chakrabarti asks rhetorically, &#8220;then why are we in this mess?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world is urbanizing. 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