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18 Jun 2025 Conversations with Tyler Chris Arnade on Walking Cities
“Scott who writes a lot about the idea of regulation as control, or top-down regulation as control. That’s certainly the case in Beijing, where gone are the small winding dens of small neighborhoods because those are hard to control.”
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- Chris Arnade
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- 18 Jun 2025
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- Conversations with Tyler
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- Chris Arnade on Walking Cities
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…I think parts of Beijing are designed to discourage protests and demonstrations, and that correlates with being hard to walk. It doesn’t explain the whole pattern. I was thinking in particular of that approach. I’ve been reading James C. Scott who writes a lot about the idea of regulation as control, or top-down regulation as control. That’s certainly the case in Beijing, where gone are the small winding dens of small neighborhoods because those are hard to control. They’re much easier if you replace them by 50-story towers with a mall next to it. And surveillance.…
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