Human Transit: lots of cookies (quote of the week)

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11/29/2011

lots of cookies (quote of the week)

"While many rail against cookie-cutter design, it is only with cookie-cutters that we get lots of cookies."

-- David Levinson, in an excellent post on why transport investments cost so much.

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Ha yep I liked that one too! Us Minnesotans are so quotable. :)

Posted by: Matt | 11/29/2011 at 13:12

Excellent!

Posted by: Danny | 11/29/2011 at 13:50

Remember the hallowed PCC was/is a cookie cutter design.

Posted by: david vartanoff | 11/29/2011 at 15:54

Also remember that you typically need to forge a new, American-made cookie cutter if you want to sell even a small batch of cookies in the US.

Posted by: Beta Magellan | 11/29/2011 at 16:09

You can also make drop cookies. Instead of rolling out the dough and carefully cutting each one to shape, you just grab a lump and plop it on the baking sheet. They come out lumpy and unique (like most chocolate chip cookies).

This would be emergent urbanism; like traditional cities (London, Cairo), as opposed to central planning, whether of the unique masterpiece variety (Paris, DC) or the cookie-cutter variety (Soviet cities, developer-built suburbs)

Posted by: Joseph E | 11/30/2011 at 12:20

Yay for drop cookies! Drop cookies rule. (I've never liked having to roll the dough, then cut out the cookies, then smash up the half-of-the-dough that got left over and REROLL it...)

Posted by: Scott | 12/01/2011 at 15:34

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