Mikael Colville-Anderson recommends this “brilliant TED talk about future cities now by Alex Steffen.”
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Alex synthesizes a lot of current thinking and ideas into one presentation, familiar to much of this readership. I particularly like his observations on threshold effects where, for instance (like central Vancouver), “people simply stop driving as much,” and tentpole densities, where “you raise the density a whole lot in very specific spots” (hello, Mt. Pleasant).
Watch til the end, and you’ll get some images (propaganda!) of Vancouver.
