A Treatise on Liveable Urbanism
Said of Ebenezer Howard by Jane Jacobs: "His aim was the creation of self-sufficient small towns, really very nice towns if you were docile and had no plans of your own and did not mind spending your life with others with no plans of their own. As in all Utopias, the right to have plans of any significance belonged only to the planner in charge." As urbanists and influencers, we must resist the urge to be the Planner in Charge, and instead should focus on infrastructure to enable and encourage people with plans of their own to have places to meet, talk, strive, fail, learn, teach, collaborate, change, and succeed without too much oversight and without putting too many wickets in the way. Terminology - Pods and podification. Pod: a detachable or self-contained unit on an aircraft, spacecraft, vehicle, or vessel, having a particular function. The use here of the term “pod” as an urban concept grew out of discussions over the summer and fall of 2018, between a few of us in T