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By Mahesh_P_Butani (registered) - website | Posted January 07, 2012 at 18:20:06
Jason,
Respectfully -- there can be no virtually forgone conclusions in planning or for that matter even in bearing passionate hatred for opposing views.
This amazing quotation is found at the beginning of The Logic of Scientific Discovery by Karl Popper - one of the most important and fascinating books of the last century - which is well worth reading to bring a new focus to our conversations on city building.
Planning, just as political criticism, in my view is essentially an activity that is best grasped through a Probabilistic Approach to Human Reasoning via Bayesian Rationality:
Indulge me here for a moment. I would like you to take a very close look at these thoughts below in light of broad claims made of transit systems, urban intensification, walkability and tall structures on urban form:
Now, test the two LRT reports you presented here with their sweeping inferences against the search for proofs in the above thoughts.
Can you still bring the same conviction which you had when you published this article to your conversations on transit planning and urban development in Hamilton?
If you still can, then it only means that I will have to work much harder to convince you :) But, if you cannot - then it may well be the beginnings of some very tempered and truly transformative conversations on this forum - which take into account such emerging realities:
Thank you Jason for maintaining your sense of humour thru all of this, while a few others on this forum are choosing to crash and burn by clinging on to the weight of false notions of proof.
Mahesh P. Butani
Comment edited by Mahesh_P_Butani on 2012-01-07 19:02:48
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