Urban Planning

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In the in the 19 tisorr forties, planters were coming out with these big plans. And there was massive uprising against drawing those straight lines across neighborhoods. So is it a matter of searching for more erogeneity on a smaller scale? In other words, like just don't have a huge swath of city that is all business high rises,. You need these mixtures, this sort of, here's green space, Here's a school, here's a high rise. Is that a better model to think about? It is. and it's a models that's not particularly new.

The concept of the city is a crucial one for human civilization: people living in proximity, bringing in resources from outside, separated from the labors of subsistence so they can engage in the trade of goods and ideas. But we are still learning how cities grow and adapt to new conditions, as well as how we can best guide them to be livable as well as functional. I talk with urban scientist Catherine Brinkley about the structure of cities, including the fractal nature of their shapes, as well as what we can do to make cities thrive as much as possible.

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Catherine Brinkley received a Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning as well as a degree in Veterinary Medicine from the University of Pennsylvania. She is currently Associate Professor of Human Ecology and Faculty Director at the Center for Regional Change at the University of California, Davis. She has been awarded fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity, and the Santa Fe Institute.