This week’s collection of curated news and views for urbanists:
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NBC Universal via Atlantic Cities Making Local Government Funny in ‘Parks and Recreation’: Writer Dan Goor talks about turning bureaucracy into comedy (Atlantic Cities)
- Better urban planning can reduce crime: How better urban planning decisions could dramatically break the cycle of crime in many neighbourhoods and help curb illegal activity on our streets. (Vancouver Sun)
- Policies for a Shareable City: The Sharable website is about half way though a 20 part series that will cover 20 policy areas to inspire way to make the “common wealth” in cities accessible to all residents. (Sharable)
- Anatomy of a Smart City [INFOGRAPHIC]: The 19th century was a century of empires, 20th century was a century of nation states and the 21st century will be a century of cities. (Urban Times)
- Building Community: From Empty Spaces to Meeting Places: How will community be built in the 21st century? If you want to know the lie of the land, sometimes you must literally see how the land lies and what human beings have done to it. (Huffington Post UK)