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On Remaking Shrinking Cities

Posted by: Nate Berg

8 November 2009 - 9:00am

This week's Smart City features discussions with Harvard economist Ed Glaeser about shrinking cities, and with urban design critic Randy Gragg about interactive art and urban design projects.

Glaeser talks about what makes cities work and questions the intentions of shrinking cities that are trying to grow back to their previous economic power.

Gragg is the former Architecture and Urban design critic for Portland's daily newspaper, The Oregonian. He has been a close observer of that city's evolution to what is widely considered to be one of the nation's most successful cities. He is collaborating on a fantastic mash-up of art, architecture and urban design called City Dance in downtown Portland's public fountains designed by Lawrence Halprin.

Full Story: Randy Gragg and Ed Glaeser
Source: Smart City, November 5, 2009
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