[Craic] Harvard Design Magazine: Cities in Civilization by Sir Peter Hall

[David Walsh]

Right on Bob! I will listen to it. Sorry, Iwill miss tomorrow's CRAIC session.



And have a listen to this podcast on corruption and kleptocracy:
https://pushbacktalks.buzzsprout.com/1189295/8286019-money-money-money-living-in-an-era-of-corruption-kleptocratic-networks-a-conversation-with-sarah-chayes


The Filmmaker and the Advocate take listeners of this episode of PUSHBACK Talks into the real world – one where $$ money $$ is the principle value and corruption and kleptocracy the means of acquisition. Few are better placed to expose the workings of corruption than Sarah Chayes – former NPR reporter, and senior adviser to government officials in the US Department of Defence, and author of three books including her most recent, On Corruption in America and What is at Stake.

 Drawing on her experiences in Afghanistan, Nigeria, Honduras, Lebanon and beyond, Chayes reveals that contrary to media reporting, corruption is not about individuals or single acts. Rather, it operates through sophisticated networks that link together people from very different sectors of society, spanning governments and the private sector. These networks are flexible and exist through time, over decades, losing members along the way as protests and civil unrest require, and then gaining more members after each sacrifice. Network members bend and repurpose the institutions and agencies of government to make them serve the objectives of the network, rather than the public interest. The pivotal role of real estate in all of this is not lost on Chayes who notes a universal feature of these networks of corruption is the use of real estate as a vehicle.

So what’s at stake when kleptocracy and corruption are left unchallenged? Nothing less than democracy.

David

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From: Rob Anderson <bob_nora70 at hotmail.com>
Sent: June 4, 2021 3:18 PM
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Subject: Harvard Design Magazine: Cities in Civilization by Sir Peter Hall



David,



From Mumford to Sir Peter Hall.



For over a century now, these urban critics have written about how urban transportation gridlock and wealth disparity have hobbled our so-called “great” cities.



Actually, even the much lauded cultural centres of ancient Athens, Renaissance Florence and turn of the last century Vienna, among others, were also places of terrible poverty for most people.



These world class cities need a new set of standards to gauge just how great they are since they are a long ways from providing optimum conditions most most of their populations.



Bob





http://www.harvarddesignmagazine.org/issues/9/cities-in-civilization-by-sir-peter-hall





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