{"id":3631,"date":"2007-03-06T01:06:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-06T01:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3631"},"modified":"2017-11-29T19:32:02","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T01:32:02","slug":"the-men-who-would-be-demigods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/06\/the-men-who-would-be-demigods\/","title":{"rendered":"The Men Who Would Be Demigods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lileks today <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lileks.com\/bleats\/archive\/07\/0307\/030507.html\" target=\"_new\">takes issue with<\/a> urban designers:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What really caught my eye was an interview with a University of Minnesota professor named Thomas Fisher, the dean of the U&#8217;s new School of Design. It was a conversation about the new Design Economy, a term I hadn&#8217;t heard before. America will compete and thrive because we design good things, like the iPod. You might wonder how a nation of 300 million can be sustained by design, but rest assured the term has broader definitions. The interview, called &#8220;Intelligent Design,&#8221; focused on cities. As you might expect they are in dire need of Design, and I suspect this design will be administrated by experts. (As Dr. Johnson once said: A man who has tired of criticizing London is tired of tenure.) In order to compete, our cities need better design. No argument here &#8211; until we look at the specifics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wouldn&#8217;t it be neat if we could get all of these government planners together and buy them copies of SimCity and let them go at that for their tax-money squandering fun as they tried to one-up each other?<\/p>\n<p>No, probably not, because design and aesthetics and micromanaging Cits is only one component of their self-aggodizement.  The other is enriching themselves and their unelected Elect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lileks today takes issue with urban designers: What really caught my eye was an interview with a University of Minnesota professor named Thomas Fisher, the dean of the U&#8217;s new School of Design. It was a conversation about the new Design Economy, a term I hadn&#8217;t heard before. America will compete and thrive because we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18221,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3631\/revisions\/18221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}