Let's put personalities aside — TV I'd like to watch

You know about the issue. Right? If not, 

first Fifty-nine and a half minutes of brilliance, thirty seconds of hauteur 

and then Does Fallows accept Gehry's lame excuse? What would Jane Jacobs think?

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Maybe Frank Gehry was rude; maybe Fred Kent was rude. Who knows. In the long run who cares except People magazine. It doesn't really matter. Everyone gets a little tense at times and speaks out in a socially-inappropriate way; maybe that's what happened in Aspen. Let's put personalities aside.

The important issue is that we need vigorous and sophisticated discussion about our cities. This little contretemps at Aspen could be a great springboard.

I'd like to watch Charlie Rose or Bill Moyers (maybe even Oprah?) hosting a discussion in which Frank Gehry and say, Nicolai Ourossoff (architecture critic of the NYT) would discuss/debate the future of cities (starchitecture, walkability, public spaces and all the related and intertwined issues) with Fred Kent and say, Andres Duany or John Norquist of Congress for the New Urbanism.

Maybe James Fallows should moderate — he started this whole discussion. 

Or maybe Curbed should sponsor? They love a tussle.

Hey! maybe even invite Lord Rogers and Prince Charles to show that the issues are similar everywhere, the concerns about livability of cities global. 

Could be fabulous TV indeed.