Okay, finished now.
This is still about how cities look rather than about how they work. This is just a different (better) visual style compared with the last century’s mid-century disasters. The important recipes to start with are the ones traditional cities (up to the automobile age) most often got right. Grouping retail where foot traffic or transit is concentrated and where it is surrounded by several blocks of potential customers in all directions is more important than what the buildings, or the door hardware, looks like. This is still where Jacobs got it right and where most academic writers show themselves to be more comfortable in the suburbs.
I love the way the 747 looks, but the most important part of that recipe is the part that keeps the plane in the air.
