11/15/11

All the clues you need are here

In this complex of blogs there are the clues needed to move past the post-war nightmare of automobile glut and sprawl.

1. Car Free Communities must be the center of recovery. That means communities of up to 10K in areas where everything is pedestrian and where stratified zoning is suspended so that a community has all attributes of a city.

2. Occupations and professions must adapt to the idea of a walkable community where which the endeavors of humanity are realized where we live.

3. Human communities cannot possibly afford the infrastructure needed to create eco-sustainability. The only way to afford it is to build such communities on the skeleton of an eco-matrix which literally conducts all of the energy, waste, recycling and other elements needed for to service modular, mass-produced spaces (rooms, locales) which can be attached lego-like to form cyber-communities. This is beyond detached homes and high rises. Max height is four levels above ground.

Shorthand for all this is that it combines pattern language (Christopher Alexander) with new technology that one would hope the Google think tank would help dream up. I see no evidence of this yet. Robocars don't cut it and demonstrate mental atrophy.

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