Blame It on Canada: Vancouver urban planning guru preaches high-density
tower living in San Francisco. I thought this was interesting because it
talks about the similarities between San Francisco and Vancouver, and how
Vancouver solved their housing crisis. While informed by Jane Jacobs and
Christopher Alexander, they went with huge, dense towers amid open space
that sounds more like Modernism than New Urbanism. I would've liked to
have seen this presentation.
Big
and Blue in the USA. Everyone's favorite suburb skeptic James Howard
Kunstler talks about the link between suburban, auto-dependent living and
obesity and depression. Apparently, Kunstler writes a column for Orion. I
love his books The Geography of Nowhere and Home from Nowhere.