NY Times Links

Yesterday and today the NY Times covered an interesting Q&A and iPhone app on two of their blogs – Freakonomics and City Room.

Freakonomics
Can “Charter Cities” Change the World? A Q&A With Paul Romer

The key to the project is a charter city, which starts out as a city-sized piece of uninhabited territory and a charter or constitution specifying the rules that will apply there. If the charter specifies good rules (or in our professional jargon, good institutions) millions of people will come together to build a new city.

City Room
Museum of the Phantom City

Two architects, Ms. Cheng and her husband, Brett Snyder, have created a virtual map to guide users around Manhattan to sites where projects they describe as “visionary” were planned but never built.

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