Some “urbanists” are urbanists in theory.
They’ll lecture about how it’s good for people to live in cities because cities are good for the environment and for growth.
But these urbanists don’t appear to like cities.
Fred Siegel, the urban historian who died last weekend at 78, really cared about cities because the near-lifetime Brooklynite liked people, lots of different people, in one place.
Fred, my City Journal colleague, didn’t see urbanism as a theory but as a contact sport.
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Nicole Gelinas is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and contributing editor at City Journal. Follow her on Twitter here.
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