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The Reflective Urbanist

Peter Hendee Brown

31 episodes

4 days ago

The Reflective Urbanist is for all city-builders, from design professionals, developers, and civil servants to elected officials, interest groups, and community members. Each episode combines a story, a theory, and a lesson, bridging between ideas and practice to illuminate how things get done in the city.

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#P017: Follow the instructions

The Reflective Urbanist

10 minutes 34 seconds

5 months ago

#P017: Follow the instructions

What does a missed train, a cold beer, and a bureaucratic form have in common? The lost decade of I-676.

This episode of The Reflective Urbanist unpacks how a simple lapse in judgment—and the inflexible gears of Weberian bureaucracy—delayed a major highway project for ten years. From Philadelphia to South Jersey and from sociology to spiral-bound proposal fails, it's a story about process, power, and the very human limits of rational systems.

Episode Music: Miami 1987 by Hey Pluto!

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