Retrofitting and green won't cut it without the matrix

Beyond Pattern Language: Balancing Population Enhances Civilization:

'via Blog this'

Actually we could achieve the future with minimal movement
All it takes is a recognition that
A walkable community of some 10K persons
Is the core cell of a viable economic entity
Enabling a scale where everyone can have a local job or
Work at a distance via cyber means

Eliminate cars from existing areas
Begin to do the work from bottom up

Then will need the matrix
Tol turn these local cyber-communities
Into economic and ecological powerhouses

This matrix is the frame
Or skeleton of a community of 100,000
Creating it is the challenge of our time

A matrix to enable development of
Car-free walkable communities
A matrix that can deal with
Waste recycling and energy
All in one frame
Only this way can a hugely expensive transition to an
Ecologically sustainable world be achieved

Retrofitting and green won't cut it
Without the matrix