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A Medieval Model: The Future Of Urban Planning?

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Congress on New Urbanism
4 February 2002 - 9:00am

Steven Johnson discusses the challenges urban planners face in creating the cities of the future that offer protection from terrorism.

"The question for tomorrow's planners will be how to preserve the virtues of density while protecting city dwellers from the nonlinear, asymmetrical threat of modern warfare, wherein one person can potentially take out an entire city. A hundred years from now, we may look back at the World Trade Center attacks and see the origins of a new new urbanism."

Full Story: Blueprint for a Better City
Source: Wired, December 1, 2001
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The areas where we have severe blight and indications of more blight to come are basically the same as they ever were. How in the world are we ever going to move our community development selves into an alternative future that thinks differently about the challenges we face in our cities and low-income suburban and rural communities?
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