
Episode 399: Ancient Cities and Energised Crowding
Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast
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Urbanism as a Way of Life
History is written by the victors, right? Well, yeah. You know, another thing that was interesting to me was, I always like to think about Louis Worth and his 1938 piece, Urbanism as a Way of Life. We read it out in full, the University of Chicago was kind enough to allow us to do that for our 200th episode. Yeah. And so I'm kind of interested in how that influences your discussion of cities today. As you get larger, the diversity of cities allows people to specialize, allowing people to be organized in groups but they don't really have to be connected to the group. It's interesting how that actually impacts cities and neighborhoods.
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