So I love cities. I don't work in urbanism. I have not gotten any degrees in urban planning or anything like that. I've just been reading about them for the past seven years through, like, blogs, articles, listening to podcasts, reading random PDFs that I come across, and the fascination just seems to perpetuate. But there's still this question that I think is interesting. The basic question of, like, what is a city?
hannah sillars
@hansil · 2:21
And I think that everything you listed out in terms of whether it's the infrastructure of the city or whether it's the design, whether it's the beauty of the city, whether it's the cultural centers of the city, all of those things are like necessary pieces of factors that are required for people to flourish together. I would also add and this is kind of just like a subpoena to culture because I think this is where a lot of cities seem to be failing
Chelsea Hanawalt
@allowthesun · 2:44
And I think for me, what I love about New York City is how easy it is to get around. So easy to hop on the subway or a bus. I also really love walking the city. I'll walk like for hours in the city. And I love the balance of having nature or like a park that you can sit in or having places to just stop and observe. The city, I think is really important for me
Tiffany Owens
@citiesdecoded · 4:38
We want you to be comfortable and happy and we want you to have a good time here as a human, not as a driver, which is totally different. Whereas here in Waco and a lot of American cities struggle with this but there's just so much emphasis historically put on the driver that it creates this really inhospitable environment for people who are not in cars. So there's not a lot of green space
Tiffany Owens
@citiesdecoded · 4:30
People travel to see places that are functioning as buckets to contain local culture really well and I think part of the challenge of figuring out how do we make our cities better is figuring out how do we help them revitalize this sense of, well, part of our job is to facilitate a unique sense of shared life and to build a unique social fabric through meaningful work, through shared stories, through shared practices and creativity
Jack .
@zejacques · 3:27
And if we're dismissing that, then I'm not sure if we're I don't know what I'm saying here. What I'm trying to say is just considering redlining and housing and historical structures of cities. I look forward to hearing more
Kyle Crossman
@kylecrossman · 1:42
But I feel like if you build a city in the way that you want, that's healthy and strong for its residence and everyone's happy, the economy will kind of follow in that regard. I obviously don't really have a lot of super concrete evidence or knowledge to base that off of, but that's what my intuition says. And I think that's really how I would sort of approach the question in the beginning
Tiffany Owens
@citiesdecoded · 3:59
So it looks like the pattern of development for the american city really was like commerce first and economy first, and then they kind of built from there, depending on whether or not they were successful, which is good because all those nice things like parks, they have to be paid for. So it makes sense that you would need to have a strong economy first and then kind of build up your amenities and build up amenities and things like that around it