# The Human City

**Published by:** [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com/)
**Published on:** 2016-11-19
**Categories:** aaron-m-renn, aaron-renn, cities, joel-kotkin, podcast, suburbs, the-urbanophile, uncategorized, urbanism
**URL:** https://brandondonnelly.com/the-human-city

## Content

As a follow-up to yesterday’s post about fluid labor markets and urban density, I thought I would present an opposing view. Joel Kotkin is a well known geographer and author. He has published a number of books, the most recent of which is called, The Human City: Urbanism for the Rest of Us. He is also well known as a supporter of the suburbs, which is a somewhat contrarian view in today’s urban-centric world. Here is a recent interview he did with Aaron M. Renn (click here if you can’t see it below): [soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/257309155" params="auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true" width="100%" height="450" iframe="true" /] One of his messages is that the urban core is great for young people without kids, but that we shouldn’t expect it to serve everyone’s needs and wants – particularly those of families. Families need space and affordability, and urban cores are simply not engineered for that. Long live the suburb.

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