Really enjoyed this piece! Especially coming out of a recent city council meeting that deferred approval of removing zoning restrictions that prevent small businesses from opening within neighbourhoods in Toronto. A policy proposal with a 95% public approval rating, yet hindered by one woman's campaign against it.
I have been thinking about the ways in which constraints and freedoms interplay to allow for emergent complexity with the kinds of aliveness and vitality that you describe here. The juxtaposed images convey how this quality is something beyond single factors like density or difference. What does allow a 'tall' quality to develop?
Love this. It articulates something important. I have found that my personal sense of ethics comes largely from variants of "how much life and humanity has passed through this place."
Really enjoyed this piece! Especially coming out of a recent city council meeting that deferred approval of removing zoning restrictions that prevent small businesses from opening within neighbourhoods in Toronto. A policy proposal with a 95% public approval rating, yet hindered by one woman's campaign against it.
I have been thinking about the ways in which constraints and freedoms interplay to allow for emergent complexity with the kinds of aliveness and vitality that you describe here. The juxtaposed images convey how this quality is something beyond single factors like density or difference. What does allow a 'tall' quality to develop?
Love that description of what a "rich" social fabric can actually mean. The analogy to brain surface area feels resonant
Love this. It articulates something important. I have found that my personal sense of ethics comes largely from variants of "how much life and humanity has passed through this place."