Showing posts with label car free settlements. Show all posts
Showing posts with label car free settlements. Show all posts

11/21/11

The Occupy agenda is right here

ShortFormContent at Blogger: At times, horizontalism can feel like utopian theatre.

You see I have merely suggested the parameters. All depends on people deciding what they want. But it does involve the most tactile reality. What we called houses. What we called transportation. What we called plumbing. What we called education. Occupy knows with me that we need to build an entirely new world. That we will build such. All I am doing is stating the obvious. That it be car free where we are living. That it be open to anyone and affordable to all. That it be chosen. That it be universal. Of course the fact that this solves global warming is incidental. I have reached my shortform limit.


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7/24/11

We are throwing money, architecture, design and ecology down a black hole.

The notion of designing human settlements and their dwelling units on a scale that would permit their being more than superficially green is now viable to anyone who thinks realistically. This means green is not merely retrofitting, it is new designs and new notions of how to build "cyber-cities" that are self-sustaining. Environmentally self-sufficient.  I mean habitations less vulnerable than skyscrapers or sprawling detached units. Less subject to being washed or blown away. By continuing our automobile economy we are throwing money, architecture, design and ecology down a black hole.

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