Edward Norton
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884 appearances
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2 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 2 Jul
Edward Norton’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I don't know if it's true that he coined the phrase.
He was an early user of the idea of suburban sprawl.
And we all talk about suburban sprawl now.
We grew up in it,
But he talked about suburban sprawl.
He kind of predicted the hollowing out of the cities.
And in the 60s and 70s, when all the cities were going bankrupt, basically, because the middle class had kind of left for the bedroom communities, a lot of people were like, this guy is a visionary.
Even in the 60s and 70s, he was arguing for...
the need for more city planning, the revitalization of urban downtowns to bring the middle class back to the town center.
He talked a lot about the European tradition of the town center and the marketplace and how we needed to find a way to both, in our suburban planning, actually build communities, not just developments and strip malls.
But then in the urban centers, downtown Boston, he did the Faneuil Hall,
Quincy Market redevelopment.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Baltimore, he completely redeveloped the Baltimore Inner Harbor.
He did the pier in New York.
South Street Seaport.
Yeah.
Yeah, and also commercial real estate's always weird.
What makes people want to return to a city center?
And it's not just the commerce or the mall.
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