Part of the reason we have 'not fast' is that along with some good things, we also did some bad things 'fast', like lots of paving over disproportionately minority parts of cities for freeways.
It'd be interesting to try and quantify both columns - the good and the bad.
Ideally, we would go back to being able to do some things 'fast' and hopefully do a bit better at avoiding the bad things.
Agreed.
The destruction of black-owned neighborhoods for freeways is very much worth studying. Sweet Auburn had 30,000 residents displaced, turning a once prosperous and flourishing neighborhood into a crime-ridden shell of its former self.
I am left dreaming about what Atlanta may have looked like if they prioritized public transit and … not pursuing explicitly racist policies. I believe in a world where we can rapidly build and roll out infrastructure for everyone without destroying so much.
It would be interested to see a list of American tofu dregs projects. We only see what is still standing.
The difference now I guess is that we eventually learned and (mostly) everything is built without issue, sometimes at the tradeoff of time. But some countries are going through their own growing pains right now (with the tradeoff of money/people/shortcuts)
Exactly. Most of the dot-com start-ups were built fast (faster than many other things)...