Paul Krugman: 'Unfortunately, urban planning — for cities are always planned, one way or another — is yet another casualty of the politics of grievance and paranoia.'
The Upper West Side of Manhattan, on March 20, 2020. “What people who haven’t experienced a real urban lifestyle generally don’t get is how easy life is. Running errands is a snap; because you walk most places, you don’t worry about traffic jams or parking spaces,” writes New York Times columnist Paul Krugman.I have an apartment on New York’s Upper West Side.
Before I get to the politics, a few words about what living in a 15-minute city, and New York in general, is actually like.life is. Running errands is a snap; because you walk most places, you don’t worry about traffic jams or parking spaces. And the safety proved in statistics is also the lived experience in many areas of the city where New Yorkers don’t act as if they’re terrified of crime. A couple of nights ago I walked home from an event at 12:30 a.m.; there were people out and about, and no sense of menace.
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