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The Urban Transformation Teachable Moment for Organized Complexity: Profession and Planet in CrisisBy Tigran Haas, Michael Mehaffy
Abstract: The wave of US suburban foreclosures that was “Ground Zero” of the worldwide recession of 2008–2009 was a culmination of almost a century of unsustainable planning practices. Those practices are deeply embedded in conventional technology, institutions, and habits of thought. In particular, they are enshrined in “siloed” professions and disciplines that also continue to employ a “siloed” and segregated model of planning and design. The urban scholar Jane Jacobs analyzed …
Published in International Journal of Urban Design · Vol. 1, Issue 1, 2018 · pp. 24–33 Read article →