19 de Enero de 2005
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Bitácora de Juan Fernando Carpio
La economía y la ciudad
John Chamberlain le da una mirada a la obra de Jane Jacobs, especialista en temas urbanos. La ciudad como centro de división del talento ("trabajo"), y epicentro de la vida económica de un territorio.
Jane Jacobs ends her book with a crack at capital cities that are no more than that. Where they seem to boom, it is "in service to transactions of decline." "Behind its busyness at ruling," she says, "a capital city of a nation or an empire, vivacious to the last, at length reveals itself as being a surprisingly inert, backward, and pitiable place. So it was with Lisbon, Madrid, Istanbul. So it is gradually becoming, one suspects, with London, Paris, Stockholm . . . "
Como contraparte, Sanford Ikeda, a quien conocí en el 2003 dando una charla sobre Austrian Economics and the city as an spontaneous order en la FEE, nos habla de la Planeación Urbana como el microcosmos del socialismo:
Robert Moses, who dominated urban planning in New York City and New York State from the 1930s to the 1960s, personified the hubris of central planning. Perhaps America’s leading practitioner of constructivism in politics and in architecture, Moses demonstrated in his work all of the major pitfalls of socialism—unintended and unwanted consequences, the inability to allocate scarce resources rationally, the abandonment of ordinary morality, and the extreme disregard for the wishes of those whose lives are being planned.
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