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Housing is the problem.. Housing, cars and sprawl. In short our society. That is what won't come back. The side effect of austerity is that we will be hunkering down to whatever works. But that does not mean we will go back to what does not work.
Sometime in the hopefully near future, people will wake to the economic bonanza in redesigning society, in zapping existing stratified zoning, in creating modular, walkable communities, in decentralizing work and education and everything else so that communities of 10,000 can spring up and develop economies in their midst.
We should be in no hurry to revive the automobile sand housing sectors. Rather we should reimagine transportation, elevate walkability and see future housing as a flexible, modular affair, closer to lego than bricks, boards and mortar.
