Good Urbanism Requires Numeracy

On Becoming The Coastal Cassandra

Cassandra was a mythical priestess of the Bronze Age city of Troy, located on the coast of modern-day Turkey. She was the star of a rather cruel game of “would you rather”: always be right but never believed, or always be wrong yet trusted unquestioningly. Cursed of the former by Apollo, she warned her people of war, of Greeks, and of a suspiciously gen…