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Episode 287: Creative Ass (Patreon)

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2023-04-27 13:43:49
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2024-03-05 17:01:18
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Our old friend David A. Banks is back to talk about the release of his new book, The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America. We also discuss the complicated legacy of Richard Florida and the false prophets of the creative class. 

Buy the book here 

Check out David’s substack here 

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K H

Heard reducing lead poisoning by taking it out of gasoline as a theory for declining crime. Because if you lived in a city you were getting gassed.

K H

Is there an episode on why Japan stopped scaring Americans?

K H

Fine. Voluntary concentration camps. It's a choice.

Andrew

Rare trueanon miss, good guest but annoying fit from the hosts at the end

K H

I enjoy Brace explaining the tribulations of the factory goer persons. In factorum persons. Person bodies in factory spaces manipulating brooms. A think tank researcher is the most trust fund cia money blaster job I've ever heard. Wow. That shit is fucking fake. If someone tells you they are that they're a bot. Your hand could pass through them.

boop

Smash Mouth was formed in San Jose right around the start of the first tech bubble

Rene Saller

Hey, if you do a Chuck Berry episode, be sure to read RJ Smith's excellent new biography (which came out earlier this year or late last year). And also read Berry's autobiography, of course, because his writing style is unlike anyone else's, and it's an astonishing cultural product. I 'm a huge fan of the music, not the man, so I hope you all aren't planning to trash him if you ever do the episode.( I got to interview CB once in person, and it was one of the highlights of my career.) Also, count me as among the people who would like a Why Airline Travel Sucks episode or series.

Major bit me

Chubby Checker who wrote the twist and let’s twist again like we did last summer, he sued an app that measured penis size called Chubby Checker and he lost which really says a lot about our society

Anonymous

"The Jazz Pivot"

J.P. McD.

If you learn to do a nice twist (it’s very easy), swiveling hips, knees, and toes, you will be a huge hit at weddings when the song comes on

Iro Kalogeropoulou

Great ep! There's a great book on gentrification, "The new urban frontier Gentrification and the revanchist city" by Neil Smith. Written in 1996. Read it in 2007 while studying architecture in Athens, it was not dated at all. It would be actually a good moment to reread it, see how it holds up in our current situation.

Emioly

Duluth 4 ever

danica pantic

The reason the mixed use luxury apartments brace mentions as projects look so shitty is because they’re just slapped together by an engineer and yea the materials have to be the cheapest. Architects in this country only work on government buildings or on projects for the wealthy - there isn’t enough money or interest to hire architects for the big developments and because engineers can get all approvals through themselves, they are often (probably always but don’t wanna talk in absolutes) the only ones to oversee a project. That means less eyes pay attention to what’s going on, and a lot of the designs elements are pulled from one building to the next. A sort of shitty, nightmarish Lego game of telephone

Kamran Husain

chomsky my guy plz prank brace and play the beginning of burning down the house when he says brace noise

Wes

To not mention highway construction and divestment from public amenities and into private single family homes in the 50s/60s is a pretty big hole from the backstory. I am most familiar with the context of Milwaukee but the declaring suburban towns is basically a mass scale tax avoidance scheme whereby suburbs try to leech on resources (water/roads/parks) while returning the least tax revenue possible, while maintaining the least efficient development patterns (detached single family homes). Further, in recent history the red state dynamics in Wisconsin have channeled shared revenue away from Milwaukee to serve their more rural, less efficient exurban development. It's a complex situation and segregation is very real but cities are also hamstrung by utilities leeches in the suburbs and exurbs as well. Not to mention I think Milwaukee police overtime costs doubled their budget lol.

Zach

nice ep! the homogenization of US cities is truly depressing / some years back I made a short film about the similarity between condos & projects in San Francisco & the wish to burn it all down https://vimeo.com/53624890

Anonymous

this connected very strongly with mackenzie wark’s framework of the “hacker” class emerging from what she calls a new mode of production, vectoralism, in which capital is even more abstracted. the defining feature of the hacker or creative class is that rather than laboring to create interchangeable commodities, they labor to create novel ideas/products/whatever else is sellable.

Sifl

I live in a large southern city. In 2010, I bought a little bungalow for @$250k in a close in neighborhood that was the artsy historic neighborhood in an otherwise soul sucking city of suburban sprawl. We arrived on the first wave of gentrification. Rental houses were being sold off and renovated for young professionals working downtown. New restaurants, coffee shops, bars, etc. were some of the best in the city as low rents and disposable income attracted some very creative local talent to open their passion project. But that just attracted more and more money to the neighborhood. The bungalows got torn down for generic Modern Victorian Farmhouses, midrise generic apartment complexes and all the great local shops and restaurants lost their leases and were replaced with VC backed chains of rich people lifestyle/beauty shit (yoga-fitness, botox/beauty salons, etc.) and chains of coffee shops and restaurants that appeal to higher end consumers. Every time I travel to another big metro area, I basically see a carbon copy of my neighborhood. MVFs, midrise apartments, all the same yoga/barre/salons and restaurants/coffee shops/juice bars.

NigelBOpinion

Sorry if anyone has said this already but, yeah, it's his real surname. He's Italian-American.

niloc

There's an excellent episode of " Well there's your problem" about 5 over ones, the type of mixed use wholefoods-with-condos-on-top building that is everywhere in the US. Long story short - they're all a ticking time bomb

Doug Cartel
>>107352851

it dovetails really nicely with the nation-wide real estate scams of the late 60s/early 70s, where the government dropped a big block of cash in the middle of the room and told corporations to use it to make cheap housing for black folk so they could escape the urban slumlords. Whoops, they took the free money and used it to build houses they sold to white people while bullying/tricking black folk (their favorite targets being single moms) into buying dogshit houses at 300% markup. The media kept blaming the home buyers for the shitty condition of the houses and quietly went "mea culpa" when they saw a full 30% of the houses get bulldozed after the FHA bought them.

Gulb

Liz's creativity rant was really good

Sneakaboard
>>107386543

Yeah, those buildings are basically 'one weird trick to build a death trap without running afoul of fire code'.

Cameron Young

Game 7 is Sunday. In Sacramento.

Shivvy

Jinx Brace! had the same crane conversation yesterday but about Nashville in 2017 😀everything is fine

Shivvy

Unpopular take: I like the SF flag, nice and phoenixy

opal

brace pls lemme teach you 9th grade algebra, i think you would like reading graphs

michael benham

Is this pod still about Jeffery Epstein and the sickos or is it more an urban planning pod now? Jw thanks

Robert Sayre

big Baader-Meinhof phenomenon: https://imgur.com/a/JcbWyaU Saw Carpenter's Local 22 with SF flag for Caesar Chavez day.

Baron

As a bit of geography nerd liberal growing up, one of my first entries into non-voter politics was trying to restart this petition to change the flag for Oklahoma City. That 99% invisible shit and the TedTalk associated with it caused like a wave of 20something cities to have liberals run ballot measures to re-design their flags. TFW the superstructure sublimates the base, etc.

AD

I cracked up too hard at that "look at this graph" and in general the musical interludes

AD

Great episode, you guys seem to be in top form

Killa Bea Arthur

Lol instead of the ai and humman inversion we had the hipster inversion.

Anonymous

This is so good, and we need a Vice News episode

Randy Hendrickson

Brace needs to sing the opening number to JCSS.

Anonymous

I was taking a giant drink of ice water at the exact moment Yung Chomsky inserted the Logan Roy "Fuck off" and I ended up shooting ice cold water out of my nose. I'm not exaggerating.

Anonymous

I want to read the book, but this episode and discussion just feels really disengenuious to me only talking about cities as a place people move to instead of a place were we are born, grow up and live in.

Anonymous

I tried to buy it at my Fort Worth, TX bookstore and they told me they probably wouldn’t be carrying it. 😭

Bellololol

Missed a punch down opportunity on Virgil Texas.

xnfec

So Authentic is the new Fake?

wolfgang

the “naughty aughties” describes bush doing 911, oops! Naughty boy! Also to a lesser degree, in 2008 when those naughty bankers did an oopses with mortgage back securities. they sure did a baddy 😘

Will mishler

Comrades, half of us have read imperialism here. We’re suckers for charts and numbers. Give us that airline episode and I raise you a couple more with numbers and charts. Give me an episode on the Rockefeller’s and industrial farming sponsored by the petroleum industry and I’ll double subscribe to Patreon.

Anonymous

This is fucking retarded

Anonymous

The sideshow is the solution to gentrification. Start shooting guns and doing donuts in shitboxes at 3 am

Sardonic

It's worth pointing out that the origin of Austin's tagline as the 'live music capital of the world' was a chamber of commerce slogan

JD Sanchez

Just drove past the giant Whole Food apartment complex in DC and it made me open up Patreon just to comment here