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I think David Byrne is one of the smartest people alive, and this piece in The Wall Street Journal unravels the components of great cities-- check it out.
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David Byrne's Perfect City
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Walker
The KLD / Downtown
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Great article. I like his simple and straightforward approach to explaining these very basic and important concepts.
Although his references to the financial districts in London & Los Angeles emptying out at night are likely to get him yelled at. ;)
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michaelcoyote
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Having lived in SF for a while during the early 90s, I can attest to it being a bit of a small village.. Still, I love that city, and I don't think it would keep me from moving back..
On the other hand I can feel his statement about "room to make mistakes". It's something I don't really feel about Columbus that I do feel in the really large cities I've visited...
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Manatee
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I am a huge Talking Heads fan, and I think that David Byrne has always been a fascinating insect. He is very analytical, and I think he is seeing cities here as broken down into pleasant parts and bad parts. I would say this might not be realistic, that maybe the "bad" parts and "good" parts create each other sometimes-- but I know he knows that. Good suggestions all the same.
I will say, if I had been wealthy enough through my creative success, to bicycle around most of the world's cities for thirty years, I'd probably be pretty epicurean about things myself. And what more intelligent guy than Byrne to reflect it back to us.
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