A Brief History of Decentralization — Part 3: Urban Decentralization
For the full context about why decentralization matters and what this series is about, please check out Part 1; if you just want to read about what people have had to say about urban decentralization, you’ve come to the right place. I also want to credit a publication by Alexander von Hoffman and John Felkner from the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University called The Historical Origins and Causes of Urban Decentralization in the United States, which provided a significant amou...
A Brief History of Decentralization — Part 3: Urban Decentralization
For the full context about why decentralization matters and what this series is about, please check out Part 1; if you just want to read about what people have had to say about urban decentralization, you’ve come to the right place. I also want to credit a publication by Alexander von Hoffman and John Felkner from the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University called The Historical Origins and Causes of Urban Decentralization in the United States, which provided a significant amou...
Part 2: Decentralization in Government (A Brief History of Decentralization)
For the full context about why decentralization matters and what this series is about, check out Part 1; if you just want to read about what people have had to say about decentralization in government, you’ve come to the right place.When people talk about decentralization in government, they’re usually referring to one of three things:The invention or evolution of democracy (depending on whether you see it as a product of nature or nurture)The way organizations expand power by delegating func...
Part 2: Decentralization in Government (A Brief History of Decentralization)
For the full context about why decentralization matters and what this series is about, check out Part 1; if you just want to read about what people have had to say about decentralization in government, you’ve come to the right place.When people talk about decentralization in government, they’re usually referring to one of three things:The invention or evolution of democracy (depending on whether you see it as a product of nature or nurture)The way organizations expand power by delegating func...
A Brief History of Decentralization — Part 1: Why Decentralization?
Photo by Greg Rakozy on UnsplashWhenever we think about big, important problems in the world like war, climate change, and genocide, it can be easy to find some big, important person or group of people in charge, and think, “if we could stop those people from doing what they’re doing — or better yet, spread their power around to the rest of us — we could solve this big, important problem, once and for all.” To a lot of people, this is what decentralization is all about. While ideas about dece...
A Brief History of Decentralization — Part 1: Why Decentralization?
Photo by Greg Rakozy on UnsplashWhenever we think about big, important problems in the world like war, climate change, and genocide, it can be easy to find some big, important person or group of people in charge, and think, “if we could stop those people from doing what they’re doing — or better yet, spread their power around to the rest of us — we could solve this big, important problem, once and for all.” To a lot of people, this is what decentralization is all about. While ideas about dece...
