Day By Day

Wednesday, September 01, 2010

Cities of the Past and Future

Nice piece by Joel Kotkin in Foreign Policy on the cities of the future. It's a strong rebuttal to Richard Florida, and that I like -- I like a lot! It's really nice to see someone stick up for the suburbs and decry the fetishization of urban culture, And it serves as a reminder that urban theorists are, more than anything else theorists, and that they are badly in need of a historical perspective.

Read it here.

No comments: