Jason Crawford

Jason Crawford appears in Kyle’s notes as one of the Silicon Valley new-cities figures the founders behind the City Building effort consulted during their May–July 2019 research push — listed alongside Mark Lutter, Tamara Winter (then at the Charter Cities Institute (CCI)), Iyinoluwa Aboyeji, Patri Friedman, and Mike Solana. The same circle is described in Tamara Winter’s page as the new-cities community the founders sought out while researching ancient, modern, and future cities.

Context: Jason Crawford is the writer behind The Roots of Progress, a project and nonprofit dedicated to building an intellectual case for human progress and “progress studies.” His focus on the history and philosophy of technological and material progress overlaps with the charter-cities and city-building conversation.

Where this appears

• City Building — named among the new-cities crowd the founders consulted in their 2019 research phase
• Tamara Winter — listed in the same new-cities circle alongside Lutter, Aboyeji, Friedman, and Solana