Is this what urbanism is? "Cappucino Urbanism, and Beyo

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Is this what urbanism is about?

Cappucino Urbanism, and Beyond
Editor's letter

Of course I could be wrong and aggrandizing, but it seems to me that the section of this issue on contemporary urban design could produce or at least mark a turning point in the discipline. The radical critique of current American practice articulated here seems as potent and important as the radical critique of Modernist practice articulated and worked through from the early 1960s (with Jane Jacobs) through the early 1980s (with Postmodernism). (....)

The questions that framed the discussion in this issue were:

1) What are examples of highly successful (or instructively unsuccessful) urban design projects of the past decade?
2) Given urban dispersion, democratized decision-making, the dominance of private development, the reactive or ad hoc nature of contemporary planning, and the absence of a broadly shared view about what constitutes good urbanism, is urban design is still possible?
3) What are the opportunities, if any, for inspired urban design intervention? Who are current most likely clients for urban design?
4) ..........

Source / find this article: Harvard Design Magazine