NP - What Occupy Did to 2012, What It Will Do to 2013

[Ian Livingston]

Thanks, Rich. That's a great article. Pynchonian in the extreme, one could
say. The ironic implications of the dialectic in demand, supply, and
innovation, for instance become agencies of tragic beauty in West's model.
I have for decades been inclined to see the sameness in city features
without really grasping the underlying implication that the sameness is a
response to the laws of nature. It was my paranoid assumption that it was
all part of some undefined intention to invoke sameness in populations,
deriving from consumer driven models of economic lust. West's model seems
to right all that by standing my view on its feet rather than its head.
Maybe the blood flow will improve. This guy offers some real meat to chew
on.

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 6:37 AM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ian
>
> you should read this
>
> The Physics of Cities
>
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/magazine/19Urban_West-t.html?pagewanted=all
>
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