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Luckmaking in Place

12 Feb 2007 in General by Garrick

“Placemaking takes time and sometimes just plain dumb luck. No planner envisioned it all, first laying out the grid of streets and creating a zoning code for Dinkytown, then deciding precisely that an alley was to be converted to become the location of a breakfast counter and a legendary, delicious business.” - Sam Newberg

A nice reminder that things like MySpace, CraigsList - while not ‘designed’ - are more valuable places than some of the more ‘planned’ places.

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