{"id":25519,"date":"2012-02-02T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T17:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=25519"},"modified":"2013-01-21T15:28:22","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T20:28:22","slug":"urban-planet-witold-rybcyznski-vs-richard-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/02\/02\/urban-planet-witold-rybcyznski-vs-richard-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Planet: Witold Rybcyznski vs Richard Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/02\/02\/urban-planet-witold-rybcyznski-vs-richard-florida\/florida-map\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-25521\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25521\" title=\"florida-map\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2012\/01\/florida-map.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/01\/18\/urban-planet-how-the-dutch-got-their-cycle-paths\/feature-urban-planet\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-25153\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"feature-urban-planet\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2012\/01\/feature-urban-planet.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"63\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Urban Planet is\u00a0a daily roundup of\u00a0\u00a0blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We\u2019ll be on the lookout for websites outside the country that approach themes related to urban experiences and issues.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spacingmedia.com\/uploads\/images\/line-grey-1pixel-600wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/grist.org\/cities\/2011-12-12-cities-not-quite-as-awesome-as-we-like-to-think\/\">Grist<\/a> talks to urbanist Witold Rybczynski about his recent efforts to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.witoldrybczynski.com\/urbanism\/tales-of-the-city\/\">call out Richard Florida<\/a> for playing &#8220;fast and loose&#8221; with income statistics for American urban centres. Florida posited a positive relationship between density and household income, using figures for metropolitan areas rather than city centres. Rybcyznski wants to shed light on what we believe to be true about the city and whether we have the data to back up those beliefs.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2011\/10\/where-the-skills-are\/8628\/\">The Atlantic<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em><em>For more stories from around the planet, check out Spacing on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Spacing\/111174192229238\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/Spacing\">Twitter<\/a>.\u00a0 Do you have an Urban Planet worthy article you&#8217;d like to share? Send the link to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:urbanplanet@spacing.ca\">urbanplanet@spacing.ca<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Urban Planet is\u00a0a daily roundup of\u00a0\u00a0blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. 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