#rebelcities

Streets that get clogged with traffic make that particular public space almost unusable even for drivers (let alone pedestrians and protestors), leading at some point to the levying of congestion and access charges in an attempt to restrict use so that it can function more efficiently. This kind of street is not a common

My particular bête noire has always been the suburbs. If you build suburbs, you get a suburban political consciousness; you get a suburban human being, with all goes with it. And, frankly, that's not the kind of human being that I admire. Now, I'm not going to say that they're not human; they are very human, in fact. As human beings, we always adapt to our environments in certain ways; adapt our mental conceptions of the world according to the kinds of experiential world in which we exist. It is not inhuman to be that way in the suburbs. But what you have to do is build something completely different so that people end up being human in a completely different way. (…) [T]herefore it's a class conflict, it's a cultural conflict, and so on.