To make better places for children

'Just been handed copy of 1993 urban design manual containing piece on 'woonerf' (homezones) by Graham Paul Smith: "Children's rights in the highway have been eroded in a kind of inverse proportion to the rate of increase in car ownership and use. To make better places for children, or even for recreation space for all ages, the vehicle dominance of public space calls for a reconsideration of the limited range of uses regarded as lawful and legitimate in public space".

Cap Tip Alice

I shall insist to my dying day that the resolution of world problems hinges on reversing this dominance. We have a movement to get that done now but it has not penetrated the larger and determinative Occupy movement. It must and should. The illustration below surmises human settlements in which few if any vehicles exist. There is no reason that the separation and winnowing cannot occur save human slobhood which we should joyfully acknowledge, not seek to suppress. Acknowledging it, we can apply our minds to reckoning with it. This is what F. L. Wright failed to do when he thought every suburban family would gladly plant a veggie garden. We have grown up some. As in the present recycling of plastic and the elimination of cars from dominance of global design and economy. It is, mind you, a failing and doomed economy for many obvious reasons.