Ask yourself this: Why is Richard Florida more celebrated than Rebecca Solnit?

Go read their corpus before you answer.

How many broadly recognized urbanists can you list other than Jane Jacobs?

(To keep it rigorous, I’ll define: an urbanist writes or speaks about the city as a specialist.)

Let’s begin the blah blah blah: women are so focused on family and relationships they don’t think about cities, their baby making capacities render them incapable of noticing how awesomely better New York is than any other city….