April 2021 Meetup: Urban Unplanning

We’ll be talking about city planning, including what makes for a good city and how much planning should there actually be (versus organic growth).

Here are two readings to facilitate discussion (not required, as usual):

Jane Jacobs on cities

http://www.zompist.com/jacobs.html

A Scalable Urban Design and the Single Building City

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fnzZCq4XCeoWGPEp8/a-scalable-urban-design-and-the-single-building-city

And SlateStarCodex has a related post that we covered in the May 2019 meet-up:

Book Review: Seeing Like A State