Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space

"A community’s physical form, rather than its land uses, is its most intrinsic and enduring characteristic." [Katz, EPA] This blog focuses on place and placemaking and all that makes it work--historic preservation, urban design, transportation, asset-based community development, arts & cultural development, commercial district revitalization, tourism & destination development, and quality of life advocacy--along with doses of civic engagement and good governance watchdogging.

Saturday, January 03, 2009

Everything I believe about cities is wrong

according to "How the city hurts your brain" in the Boston Globe. The article is summarized as:

Scientists have begun to examine how the city affects the brain, and the results are chastening. Just being in an urban environment, they have found, impairs our basic mental processes.
City and the brain
Yuki Shimizu for the Boston Globe.

Maybe in my semi-suburban environment in Ward 4 I have the best of both worlds, the stimulation of the city, and the idyll of nature.

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