Highlights of what I’ve been reading over the past 5 days:

Re-imagining the Good-Life A look at the need to create a new vision of the American Dream that is urban, not suburban in nature.

Brains And Cities Obey The Same Growth Laws The similarities in the patterns of connections in brains and cities.

Pavement to Parks The connection between Park(ing) Day and land-banking. Inspired, in part, by a chat I had with NYT blogger Allison Arieff.

Density and Sustainability‚ÄîA Radical Perspective An inquiry into the optimal building heights and density in urban centers; and the reasons that bigger isn’t always better.

Where Everybody Knows Your Name Why, especially in the age of social media, real public places matter.