{"id":3364,"date":"2010-08-08T02:30:52","date_gmt":"2010-08-08T09:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/?p=3364"},"modified":"2010-08-08T20:44:31","modified_gmt":"2010-08-09T03:44:31","slug":"the-sunday-diigo-links-post-weekly-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2010\/08\/08\/the-sunday-diigo-links-post-weekly-86\/","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:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/1673037\/david-harveys-urban-manifesto-down-with-suburbia-down-with-bloombergs-new-york\">David Harvey&#8217;s Urban Manifesto: Down With Suburbia; Down With Bloomberg&#8217;s New York | Fast Company<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">David Harvey derides the NYC for being suburbanized:<br \/>\nQUOTE<br \/>\n&#8220;New York? The whole damn place has been turned into a suburb,&#8221; sneered David Harvey, startling a roomful of New Yorkers who prided themselves on the same things he derided: the makeover of the city&#8217;s parks; the new network of bike lanes; the pedestrian malls along Broadway. &#8220;The feel of the city is losing its urbanity and being made okay for suburbanites to enjoy Times Square,&#8221; he continued, going on to condemn New York&#8217;s gentrification not on aesthetic or nostalgic grounds, but for being at the root of the financial crisis.<br \/>\nUNQUOTE<\/p>\n<p>This is definitely a very familiar argument straight out of Deleuze, the Situationists, TJ Clark, et al. (Heck, I used to teach this wrt Haussmann&#8217;s Paris and Impressionist painting&#8230;):<br \/>\nQUOTE<br \/>\nCities like New York &#8220;are increasing being constructed around spectacle,&#8221; Harvey argued Tuesday night. &#8220;One aspect of capital is that it wants to move faster and faster; capital cannot abide a long period without change.&#8221; In cities like Beijing, Shanghai and Mumbai, this change is being brought about by land grabs and slum clearance. In New York and other financial capitals, it&#8217;s gentrification &#8220;making cities a spectacle that is instantly consumed.&#8221; In other words, we&#8217;re blinded by the lights to our Matrix-like existence. &#8220;We&#8217;re all suburbanites now, without knowing it,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We&#8217;re all neoliberals now, without knowing it.&#8221;<br \/>\nUNQUOTE<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/cloud\/lampertina\">tags<\/a>: \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/fast_company\">fast_company<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/david_harvey\">david_harvey<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/cities\">cities<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/economics\">economics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/neomarxism\">neomarxism<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/suburbs\">suburbs<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/hbr.org\/2010\/05\/back-to-the-city\/ar\/1\">Back to the City &#8211; Harvard Business Review<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">Suburban decline (urban rise)?<br \/>\nQUOTE<br \/>\nTo put it simply, the suburbs have lost their sheen: Both young workers and retiring Boomers are actively seeking to live in densely packed, mixed-use communities that don\u2019t require cars\u2014that is, cities or revitalized outskirts in which residences, shops, schools, parks, and other amenities exist close together. \u201cIn the 1950s, suburbs were the future,\u201d says University of Michigan architecture and urban-planning professor Robert Fishman, commenting on the striking cultural shift. \u201cThe city was then seen as a dingy environment. But today it\u2019s these urban neighborhoods that are exciting and diverse and exploding with growth.\u201d<br \/>\nUNQUOTE<br \/>\nAnd meanwhile, in other (more recent?) articles, critics argue that the city is being suburbanized, presumably by all the boomer ex-suburbanites who transfer their values (and economic clout) to the core.<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/cloud\/lampertina\">tags<\/a>: \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/suburbs\">suburbs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/cities\">cities<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/harvard_business\">harvard_business<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hbr.org\/hbsfaculty\/2010\/07\/a-bold-new-model-for-sustainable-cities.html\">A Bold New Model for Sustainable Cities &#8211; Robert G. Eccles and Amy C. Edmondson &#8211; HBS Faculty &#8211; Harvard Business Review<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">Retrofitting older cities\/ existing communities to green-ness?<br \/>\nQUOTE<br \/>\nWe are studying different business models (and their pilot projects) for creating better urban environments (aka &#8220;smart cities&#8221; or &#8220;eco-cities&#8221;). Living PlanIT is the first business model we have examined in depth. On June 28 one of us (Bob) attended an event in Paredes where an important deal between Living PlanIT and Cisco was announced. It&#8217;s important because the imprimatur of Cisco, a leader in networking technology, means that Living PlanIT can now shift into execution mode and try to demonstrate that its co-founders&#8217; vision for creating a sustainable smart city can work.<br \/>\nUNQUOTE<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/cloud\/lampertina\">tags<\/a>: \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/urbanism\">urbanism<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/green_technologies\">green_technologies<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/green_strategies\">green_strategies<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/retrofit\">retrofit<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/harvard_business\">harvard_business<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/sustainability\">sustainability<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.psfk.com\/2010\/07\/designing-urban-areas-to-be-senior-friendly.html\">Designing Urban Areas To Be Senior Friendly &#8211; PSFK<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">How curious &#8211; never occurred to me (since I don&#8217;t live in a very hot climate) that getting a drink of water from a store would be a prime amenity for seniors.<br \/>\nQUOTE<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.psfk.com\/2010\/07\/designing-urban-areas-to-be-senior-friendly.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 2px solid white\" src=\"http:\/\/www.psfk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/New-York-City-To-Become-More-Senior-Friendly.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"116\" \/><\/a>What people say they want most of all is to live in a neighborly place where it is safe to cross the street and where the corner drugstore will give them a drink of water and let them use the bathroom. They ask for personal shoppers at Fairway to help them find the good deals on groceries. They want better street drainage, because it is hard to jump over puddles with walkers and wheelchairs.<br \/>\nUNQUOTE<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/cloud\/lampertina\">tags<\/a>: \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/seniors\">seniors<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/elderly\">elderly<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/senior_friendly\">senior_friendly<\/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\/urban_design\">urban_design<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\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 Harvey&#8217;s Urban Manifesto: Down With Suburbia; Down With Bloomberg&#8217;s New York | Fast Company David Harvey derides the NYC for being suburbanized: QUOTE &#8220;New York? 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