How Cities Sell Themselves to the Tech Industry w/ David A. Banks
Tech Won't Save Us
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The City Beautiful Movement and the City Efficiency
The city beautiful movement was attempt to build a bunch of very expensive things in a lot of cities. And then the city efficient is where you start talking about units to the acre, your engineering things to national or regional specifications. This is where code becomes really popular, right? Like code as in computer code, but also law zoning codes,. The car obviously gets popular and transforms cities around it; when you're using sophisticated technology like a car get specificity and rationalization for it to work. So that's the city efficiency era.
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