Books Feb 19, 2014 at 4:00 am

Charles Montgomery Convincingly Argues That Bad Urban Design Makes People Sad and Unhealthy

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Mimes! Oh my god, can we have traffic mimes? We need traffic mimes. We must have traffic mimes now. We can do this.
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Medellin is the better example, check the metro-cable:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrocable_…

Seattle could do this...
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Here's something you'd like.

Mexican gangs that organize themselves...by subway station!!

http://www.vice.com/mexicalia/the-subway…

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Wait, I thought cities were bad because they increased economic inequality.
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I'd love to hear Montgomery's take on the recent (December 9) forcible removal from office of Bogotá's most recent mayor (not Peñalosa) by the right-wing national government. Petro, the removed mayor was very left-wing (and a former rebel) but not, I don't think, a friend of Peñalosa. I wonder how Montgomery and Peñalosa see Bogotá's urbanist planning efforts now, a decade after they were first implemented. Are they still working? Have they been maintained, expanded, cut back?

God, Colombia is a country I would dearly love to visit. Bogotá, Medellín, Cartagena Cali -- exciting things are happening everywhere.
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Medellin is a magic city...
http://cityparrots.org/journal/2007/1/6/…
…I seen ‘em myself.

Bogota is kinda gritty and somewhat mysterious, but they do this…
http://www.caracol.com.co/noticias/bogot…
… it was like our super-bowl-parade times three, at least.

And, of course, Mexico City is awesome. As for the gangs of the DF, as referenced in the Vice link, that is kid stuff, literally.
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Seattle is doing high density all wrong. Look at the functional single family housing bulldozed to create future slums in the U District and Roosevelt. Only developers are raising their glasses to this monstrosity. People who live in the area hate it.
Money is being made by carpetbaggers to turn this city to trash. Thanks Stranger, for your help in making Seattle the hell hole it's become. You should be proud.
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@7 "single family" housing is almost by definition never high density. Some of us prefer dense, walkable neighborhoods rather than urban sprawl where everyone has their own patch of scrubby grass. Single family housing is still the vast majority in Seattle anyway, and _certainly_ in the metro area. Why do you feel the need to bitch about a few more people getting some of the actual density they want?
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@notgniffubqp join us at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/14228514…
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I haven't resided in Seattle (Ballard) in 17 years, but am deeply saddened nonetheless by all the single-family neighborhoods in Seattle being razed into condos.
Hooray for good ol' Mom 'n' Pop where it still exists!
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@2, @ Charles: "Gondola could help solve Kirkland transportation crunch"

http://mynorthwest.com/11/2465082/Sky-Tr…

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