Longtime Urban Planner Leaving Bay Expanse For Sydney, Says: Good That Didn't Work

Truth locomote told he didn't order "Well that didn't work." What he said was, together with I kid y'all not, "Something has gone terribly wrong."
Oh.

From the San Francisco Chronicle:

Longtime urban planner leaving Bay Area for Sydney amongst frustrations, hopes

Gabriel Metcalf has spent a lifetime thinking nigh cities. He spent 21 years at SPUR, the Bay Area urban intend tank inwards San Francisco, together with led the organization for thirteen years. Holding that job, he said, was “the laurels of my life.”

He’ll locomote leaving town at the plough of the year, outpouring for Sydney, where he’ll locomote caput of the Committee for Sydney, a planning organization similar to SPUR. In a way, he’s next a dream. Metcalf together with his married adult woman stimulate got ever wanted to alive together with operate abroad. So he was delighted when a undertaking offering came from Australia, “right out of the blue,” he said.

He’d been inwards Sydney a few times.

“I roughshod inwards dear amongst it,” he said, “It’s a peachy city.”

He said the same affair nigh San Francisco, when he moved hither 22 years ago, “when it was nevertheless possible to come upwardly hither without a undertaking together with figure it out,” he i time said.

Metcalf thinks San Francisco is “the most progressive of American cities.” But problems are overwhelming the metropolis together with the Bay Area. “Something has gone terribly wrong,” he wrote inwards SPUR’s magazine.

The success of the percentage has likewise brought failure — together with economic science are the key, he thinks.

“The economic scheme has changed fundamentally inwards the final 50 years,” Metcalf said. “We stimulate got made the transition to the cognition economy,” amongst thousands of novel people together with novel jobs. The Bay Area has larn a histrion on the globe stage, amongst an economic scheme that is larger than Sweden’s. He calls it “the reluctant metropolis.”

The percentage has larn together with then attractive together with successful that no i tin ship away afford to alive here. Economic studies present that the median toll for a household inwards San Francisco is $1.6 i thou 1000 — twice what it was v years ago. And it’s non only San Francisco. Only eighteen per centum of Bay Area residents tin ship away afford a medium-price house.

Metcalf believes it’s our ain fault. The electrical flow generation — the voters, the leaders, the ordinary citizens — are to blame....MUCH MORE

Reminiscent of some other urban planner who, for a piece together with fifty-fifty worse, was referred to equally a 'Thought Leader':

"Gadabout Urbanist Richard Florida Has a New Book..."

"It advises cities on what to create nigh problems that lawsuit from advice he gave them inwards his previous books..."

I stimulate got it the author is non a fan.
From Canada's National Post:...

Some other media takes on Florida.
...The Washington Post's headline is "Slate says:

"Richard Florida is dorsum amongst some other theory nigh how to laid upwardly American cities. It’s a pipage dream—and fifty-fifty he knows it."

In Seattle nosotros encounter "‘Creative class’ rises, creating novel maladies".