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Engineering Bad Outcomes (with CityNerd)

The Urbanist Agenda

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The Importance of Engineering Bad Outcomes

The futon of transportation tries to be a bed and a couch but it fails at both right so what do we mean exactly by engineering bad outcomes? Well i spent most of my adult life in Portland Oregon which there are probably fewer bad outcomes there relative to the rest of the u.s. But i spent the last year in the Las Vegas area where it probably has a lot more bad outcomes than you'll see in the average U.S. city. So that's what a bad outcome looks like to me where you use all of this space in your cities to create these extremely wide thoroughfares that are just much wider than you could possibly need, he says.

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