- Photo
- —
- Name
- —
- Field
- Political science / urban studies
- Year
- 1998
- Core idea
- Large institutions simplify messy reality into neat schemes, and those schemes often backfire on actual humans.
- Why it stuck
- Now every time I see a new city "master plan" slide deck, I picture a forester quietly screaming in the background.
- Read where
- Slowly, over a winter, on the Q train and in the back corner of the Brooklyn Public Library.
TheLysts
