Nation's Cities - April 4, 2011

April 4, 2011
Peirce, from page 2
tion lines. A promising alterna-
tive: neighborhood- or campus-
based “co-generation” plants.
Producing electricity and steam
simultaneously, their “bang for
the BTU” is sensationally high-
er. Often natural-gas powered,
they’re good targets too for solar
and wind energy. Plus, they’re a
big buffer against regional power
failures.
Thinking through these
Schumacher-like themes, I
decided to test them on my
friend Scott Bernstein, co-
founder of the Center for
Neighborhood Technology
in Chicago. He supported the
decentralization advantage but
underscored another: innova-
tion.

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place and also of ecology.”
Critics will reply, fairly: We
do need some big systems — for
air traffic control, Internet and
globally connected phone sys-
tems. Still, starting locally never
sounded better.
Neal Peirce’s e-mail address is
nrp@citistates.com.
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Post Writers Group
The opinions expressed in this
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Emerging Issues, from page 5
that the United States needs a whole
new platform of “the physical infrastruc-
ture necessary for basic production and
transportation,” such as high-speed rail
(and airports.)
The less-is-more recommendations
in Calthorpe’s “Urbanism in the Age
of Climate Change” are a direct chal-
lenge to this line of policy. His “Green
Urbanism” low carbon scenario envi-
sions “a drastically reduced physical
footprint” including less infrastructure,
less land consumed and less auto use.
Human Capital
Another piece of Big Think wis-
dom is that “human capital” is a key
to cities’ success. Glaeser says it’s “far
more” important than infrastructure but
devotes more pages to buildings. His
preferred strategy is to “help poor people,
not poor places.”
Kotkin predicts that America’s “most
critical challenge … may be maintain-
ing the prospect of upward mobility.”
Meeting that challenge depends on get-
ting rid of a “dangerous delusion” —
the “single-minded emphasis on non-
tangible industries” like finance and
“creative” sectors.

Bill Barnes is the director for emerging
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Cities Weekly, and ideas about “emerging
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