Quote Originally Posted by gnome View Post
Forgive me, I thought Urban Design was all about details. How humans interact with their enviroment ... is all about detail. Detail in the height of buildings, site lines, tree cover, access to the full fabric of urban experience. Details like which shops compliment eachother, should you have brick or concrete underfoot.... all those are the exacting details that make an urban experience pleasing and productive or crushingly depressive. You get details wrong and you get the whole thing wrong.
Therefore, if Kunstler gets one factoid wrong about Detroit, dismiss all of his ideas, because Southeast Michigan already does incredibly well creating the "full fabric of the urban experience". Fuck that guy. I mean, it's not like he was even born in Detroit, so what does he know?