{"id":1493,"date":"2009-09-20T02:30:36","date_gmt":"2009-09-20T09:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/?p=1493"},"modified":"2009-09-22T17:27:13","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T00:27:13","slug":"the-sunday-diigo-links-post-weekly-46","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2009\/09\/20\/the-sunday-diigo-links-post-weekly-46\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class='diigo-linkroll'>\n<li>\n<p class='diigo-link'><a rel='nofollow' href='http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052970203440104574403293064136098.html'>David Byrne\u2019s Perfect City &#8211; WSJ.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class='diigo-description'>I love David Byrne&#8217;s music, but in this essay for the Wall Street Journal I think he somewhat over-reaches himself. Why? The essay is muddled. He includes too many contradictory pronouncements. For example, that big and dense is good, but that you need the &#8220;village&#8221; thing for safety &amp; security; or that LA isn&#8217;t dense (I believe it is, actually); or that lack of density creates narcissistic attention-getting ploys; or that &#8220;human scale&#8221; needs to be achieved through some process of &#8220;compromise&#8221; (left undefined), and so on. Furthermore, his closing sentence really confuses me: &#8220;My perfect city isn&#8217;t fixed, it doesn&#8217;t actually exist, and I like it that way.&#8221; He likes that it doesn&#8217;t exist? What does that mean?<\/p>\n<p class='diigo-tags'><a href='http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/cloud\/lampertina'>tags<\/a>: <a href='http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/wsj.com'>wsj.com<\/a>, <a href='http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/david_byrne'>david_byrne<\/a>, <a href='http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/cities'>cities<\/a>, <a href='http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/urbanism'>urbanism<\/a>, <a href='http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/jjacobs'>jjacobs<\/a><\/p>\n<li>\n<p class='diigo-link'><a rel='nofollow' href='http:\/\/mondaymag.com\/articles\/entry\/see-span'>See Span | Monday Mag<\/a><\/p>\n<p class='diigo-description'>Added a comment to Monday Magazine&#8217;s article on Victoria&#8217;s Johnson Street Bridge debacle. <\/p>\n<p class='diigo-tags'><a href='http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/cloud\/lampertina'>tags<\/a>: <a href='http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/johnson_street_bridge'>johnson_street_bridge<\/a>, <a href='http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/victoria'>victoria<\/a>, <a href='http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/blue_bridge'>blue_bridge<\/a>, <a href='http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/infrastructure'>infrastructure<\/a>, <a href='http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/municipal_funding'>municipal_funding<\/a>, <a href='http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/municipal_politics'>municipal_politics<\/a>, <a href='http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/comments'>comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Posted from <a href='http:\/\/www.diigo.com'>Diigo<\/a>. The rest of my <a href='http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina'>favorite links<\/a> are here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Byrne\u2019s Perfect City &#8211; WSJ.com I love David Byrne&#8217;s music, but in this essay for the Wall Street Journal I think he somewhat over-reaches himself. Why? The essay is muddled. He includes too many contradictory pronouncements. 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