Chris Alexandar and Stewart Brand believe in evolution
Reading these two books concurrently has me thinking about place making. Specifically, why should it cost a lot to make small commercial/residential streets friendly for pedestrians and bikes? A lot of the planning initiatives I've seen assume that rigid zoning + money = good places. I think that's dead wrong. I think flexible zoning + time = good places, pretty much the same way that genetic mutation + time = opposable thumbs.