really excellent and insightful on urban planning, and cities are still making all the same mistakes they were 60 years ago

City planners are trapped in a dogma detached from reality

Damn coming out swinging

Cities are bad because of incompetent planners

Cars are a symptom, not the cause

Planners see density and call it a slum. Even when it's Boston’s North End and has happy people and better health than city average

Most important thing is dense, diverse activities

Planners love order and things that look good, which is not the same as being good

E.g. replacing dense chaotic housing and shops with much worse orderly housing and a park that looks nicer

(getting the impression parks are overrated)

Cities and towns are totally different, don't try to apply lessons from one to the other