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Heres a good book on general city planning: https://www.amazon.ca/Works-Anatomy-City-Kate-Ascher/dp/0143112708/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1602205578&sr=8-2
It'll give you a good overview to start thinking about all the moving pieces that have to be considered. It's a great coffee table book.
Seems like some transhumanists would do well to read:
Seeing Like A State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by James C. Scott
Best book I ever read at university, hands down.
Compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier’s urban planning theory realized in Brasilia, the Great Leap Forward in China, agricultural "modernization" in the Tropics—the twentieth century has been racked by grand utopian schemes that have inadvertently brought death and disruption to millions. Why do well-intentioned plans for improving the human condition go tragically awry?
In this wide-ranging and original book, James C. Scott analyzes failed cases of large-scale authoritarian plans in a variety of fields. Centrally managed social plans misfire, Scott argues, when they impose schematic visions that do violence to complex interdependencies that are not—and cannot—be fully understood. Further, the success of designs for social organization depends upon the recognition that local, practical knowledge is as important as formal, epistemic knowledge. The author builds a persuasive case against "development theory" and imperialistic state planning that disregards the values, desires, and objections of its subjects. He identifies and discusses four conditions common to all planning disasters: administrative ordering of nature and society by the state; a "high-modernist ideology" that places confidence in the ability of science to improve every aspect of human life; a willingness to use authoritarian state power to effect large- scale interventions; and a prostrate civil society that cannot effectively resist such plans.
It’s a 103 pager as a paperback book, “dude.”
The Communist Manifesto: A 1888 Translation Edition (The Political Philosophy of Karl Marx And Friedrich Engels) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B093RP1YHJ/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_Z0V0NKHZBVMGEQE9WMVD?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
If you’d read it, you’d not describe it as a “pamphlet.” It’s obvious you’ve never read it, nor Das Kapital.
Hey, Seeing Like a State has been on my TBR list for a while now, but the amount of jargon in the jacket description makes it seem like the read could end up being pretty inaccessible to me.
Would you say this book is appropriate for the layperson? Also, what did you get out of it?
Sinking a huge amount of money into a depreciating asset as a way to "build wealth" is vastly overrated: it is true that people who bought in the 1970 - 2002 period, and the 2011 - 2018 period have made unusually large amounts of money, but past performance is not a guarantee of future returns. Housing returns have matched inflation since 1900 or 1800.
Howdy hello! I'm afraid I'm not too familiar with any books particularly on Buffalo rather than Fillmore, but I know that Mark Goldman's work has been pretty well received and read by a friend or two of mine who still live upstate.
I'd take a look at either City on the Edge or High Hopes--whichever you can find without burning a hole in your pocket. If you get the chance, do tell me what you thought of them, I'd like to get more familiar as well!
It sounds like you want to make this subreddit more legible in the sense that a random outsider can grok it in minimal time.
Becoming more legible is rarely beneficial except to people trying to control something. The book Seeing Like a State is about how governments force people and capital to become more legible so they can control them better even though it's usually less productive.
Being hit by a car confers no innate bodily response to avoid being hit by a a car in the future.
Not even close to an analogy.
Previous SARS-COV-2 infection DOES confer an innate response to infection in the future. There is uncertainty of the degree in the protection on a case by case basis that must be measured.
From a Public health administration perspective it is simply easier to administer a once size fits all vaccine than quantifying blood antibody levels. That is the only reason they are mandating it. A great book that covers the "blindness" of public administration is Seeing Like a State by james Scott.
https://www.amazon.com/Megaprojects-Risk-Ambition-Bent-Flyvbjerg/dp/0521009464
Megaprojects and Risk: An Anatomy of Ambition by Bent Flyvbjerg
Promoters of multi-billion dollar land-use development megaprojects systematically misinform parliaments, the public and the media in order to get them approved and built. This book not only explores these issues, but suggests practical solutions drawing on theory and scientific evidence from the several hundred projects in twenty nations and five continents. It is of interest to students, scholars, planners, economists, auditors, politicians and concerned citizens.
You may want to start with https://www.amazon.com/Seeing-like-State-Certain-Condition/dp/0300078153
Governments tend to really prefer to rearrange affairs whenever possible to make them easier to understand and manage. Unorganized sectors of the economy may be efficient but the government can't properly understand or measure that efficiency and tend to underestimate what they cannot measure.
I got this from this anarchist book. I'm not an anarchist, but the guy did make a lot of interesting and true points. For example: police are heavily fetishized in our society - from the typical TV shows and movie heroes we watch to what we think police do vs. what they actually do. Police are basically armed bureaucrats but are only able to intervene in things they actually have information on, which isn't much. If you drive through town with your license plate not on you'll certainly get that rectified by police. If you beat your wife, though, probably not so much. Same as if you engage in any real consensual activity.
Not sure if you're into this, but I loved The Works - each chapter tells you how things like water and electricity end up in your house, how traffic works, how the roads are built, et cetera. It's got lots of diagrams and is fun.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Works-Anatomy-Kate-Ascher/dp/0143112708
The Complete Guide to Zoning, <em>Dwight Merriam</em>
The author doesn't go into quite as much detail as he should, but so far it seems to good for understanding the overall purpose of zoning laws and how to think about navigating them.
It also pretty entertaining.
I have his book called "life between buildings". It's really been an eye opener to me, together with "Maps in Minds" (Downs & Stea). And Jane Jacobs of course.
Great interview btw! The Brasilia syndrome is totally what my graduation is about! I'm pretty much making a dutch version of this.