"The Urbanization Question, or, the Field Formerly Known as Urban Studies"

[1dkelbaugh]

A helpful epistemological thesis, if overly Marxian, but what do we DO about the problems and opps we face?

Among the many tipping points that humanity is flirting with, climate change alone could make this re-problematizing of urbanism quickly moot. We need less intellectual hair-splitting and more design ACTION on challenges that are well enough understood NOW. Refreshingly structuralist, after a generation of mirrors, but not concrete, pragmatic, positive, fun enough to inspire and carry us.