The Lessons of Urban Planning and Urban Planning in the Seventies and Seventies

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Roxanne Jones: There's a lot to learn from the history of cities and urban planning. She says we're seeing, i think, some of those same patterns play out again. We learned ther lessons in the cities that didn't work in the seventies,. what are those sons that we need to apply here yet?Jones: At the end of the day, one of the things that public design does or should do, when it's successful, is like have some sense of community weighing in.

You’ve heard us talk before on this podcast about the pitfalls of trying to moderate a “global public square.” Our guest today, Eli Pariser, co-director of Civic Signals, co-founder of Avaaz, and author of "The Filter Bubble," has been thinking for years about how to create more functional online spaces and is bringing people together to solve that problem. He believes the answer lies in creating spaces and groups intentionally, with the same kinds of skilled support and infrastructure that we would enlist in the physical world. It’s not enough to expect the big revenue-oriented tech companies to transform their tools into something less harmful; Eli is encouraging us to proactively gather in our own spaces, optimized for togetherness and cooperation.