The car abets obesity / The girth is there for all to see

The car abets obesity The girth is there for all to see There is but one clarion call Cars should be peripheral
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CAR FREE - Why Health Requires Car Free Communities

Continuing the drafting of the forthcoming Kindle book  CAR FREE 71 Aphorisms 
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Public health will improve if retrograde forces  do not hamper current efforts to improve it But as long as the car and highway culture rules we will have a society that tends toward the obese and indolent Car free communities would largely eliminate both obesity and indolence Car free communities would enable  travel everywhere by foot For most walking unimpeded  with no traffic to deal with is a pleasure For those who wish to prolong life  it approaches the necessary A half hour walk daily  is the new apple a day
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I envision communities on four levels in an eco-sufficient structure somewhat like a stadium It would contain all elements of a community residences workplaces shops businesses piazzas squares multiple kiosks Life would be structured to make the outside  as enjoyable as one's own private spaces One could walk unimpeded for miles along interesting byways teeming with life but not over-crowded There would be places to sit and rest or recreate every 300 feet It would be a walkers' paradise And all because in a single square mile of God's earth cars if needed at all would be relegated to the periphery This is but one of the public health ramifications of living car free


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Google Should Think Triadically

Google invented a driver free car But not a car free community Google would do much better than that By starting to think triadically 



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We will not get the change we need until we are willing to articulate what it is

Yes or no
We want smaller schools we can walk to  with teachers who are part of the community
We want the option of working from home  or at work spaces we can walk to
We want neighborhoods that are face to face and safe from speeding traffic
We want a mix of things we associate with cities scaled down to serve local communities
We want enough diversity near at hand so we can create a vibrant local economy
We do not need to drive to shop if shopping becomes selecting at cyber-kiosks staffed by experts
We would prefer home delivery if we could select from the world at a cyber-kiosk we could walk to
We would prefer a car-free community that is designed as a unified structure that is eco-sufficient
I recognize that much of this is not even within the purview of planners but it should be
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Dear Jeff Bezos, here's your big idea. You can do this.

Jeff Bezos - Forbes http://buff.ly/Y2ja8R
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Jeff you told Charlie Rose you wanted to do something no one else has done Alright Do this
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Hire a team to design a prototype of what I have called a cyber-community A diverse multi-purpose community  of around 10K persons   car-free  with urban amenities  where one lives and works and recreates.  The design should have the following components The community should be compact  no more than a mile from side to side It should have no stairs and no more than four levels It should be built to withstand flood fire and extreme weather It should generate and distribute  the bulk of its own energy It should collect much of its energy  in the form of wind and sun It  should be prefabricated Its surfaces and walls should be smart and dupllicable and easily replaceable A cyber community of this sort would have residences and work spaces and all the public and commercial elements we associate with urban life scaled to the needs of the particular community Stores would be cyber-kiosks  where one could access all products on a large screen and order them for delivery Public facilities would be used in common There would be a public square every 100 yards or so
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Once you get the design and build a model you will be able to market this as the wave of an ecologically sane future When you build your next data center build one of these
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There is much more on cyber-communities on this little blog Believe me Jeff the person who makes properly-scaled integral sustainable living normative will have opened the door to a viable future
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New Ideas for Post-Sandy Construction - Revised 11/29/2012

+ Do not rebuild rethink Imagine a flood and plan beyond its reach
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Post-Sandy construction should be an opportunity to create new concepts of building and community
Among the concepts to consider
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Either raise structures or move them to higher ground
Create new mass-prodsuced pre-fabricated smart surfaces -  walls floors ceilings streets 
Create matrix's (skeletal structures) to support walls and other surfaces and to carry all elements in and out of  living and working spaces
Stop building individual houses and imagine something past repeated  apartments - create spaces for community life
Ultimately the space occupied by a stadiun could become a living and working community for 5-10K people 
If a community is dense enough it can be car-free with most everything in walking distance
When ways are clear they can be used for  other than automobile transportation moving surfaces rides etc
Rooms and other spaces like cars should become standard models made remotely and delivered in easily assembled parts
Create at least one public space for every four or so living spaces 
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My Progressive Proposal Par Excellence Time for A Mass Migration

Election Data Dive - NYTimes.com: " Romney also won eight of the 10 states with the lowest population density: Alaska, Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Idaho, Nebraska and Utah. "

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Every one of my posts is an introduction to this blog which is an introduction to angles of visions shared by many but realized by few.

Part of the problem is one of expression, my own. I know what I want to see but I cannot draw it or even describe it very well.

But it is the solution in almost every area - politics, society whatever.

So here is a chunk. We could profit massively from a mass migration.

We do not need to be in this or that city. With a bit of brain power we could create the cells of urban living anywhere at all.

So go to the states where Romney won. Buy up defunct towns. Build new car-free cities on high enough ground that they will not flood when it rains.

We can solve the problem of polarization and social injustice by making residence voluntary and building in diversity from the gitgo.

Communities would have populations of 5-10K and everything within a walk of up to a mile.

Communities would be car free.

Construction would be cyber-eco past the clunkiness of most comtemporary construction.

This will revolutionize the whole world because it will involve applying smarts to human settlements and introduce community safety and weather-resistance into the discussion ,

Oh, and ...

Once we have the majority in these states we can sleep better on election night.


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More Stacked Images - How Shall We Build for The Future?

I see the future integral and car free  beyond the suicidal commitment to fixed fossil fuel disaster I see an eminently logical conclusion that restores diversity and face-to-face and over-leaps the horrendous boundaries we have erected   by creating what is in effect a pariah class of persons taken to be not who they are but who we project them to be The integral community of the future is car free It has a dense population living in complete privacy within community It walks to work to play to sing to dance to be It has intentional sitting areas There are enough people within a mile  to enable an economy to grow and flourish THE IMAGES The Top First  The dank and darkish hole of a past that has devolved into an oil soaked sprawl Second  A Plethora of Options challenging the existence of a dark dank future Third  An initial Iteration of a walkable cyber-community where principles of pattern language and invention of utterly new construction methods begin to create safe and secure living  How shall begin We already have begun We know image one We sense image two It remains to venture into iteration Stephen's Remarkable Kindle Store

What is truth Pilate asked which means he could not see

Seeing and hearing is the essence of the prophetic challenge It is echoed in Scripture from first Isaiah to Paul with a stop at Jesus on the way Anyone with a mind now sees the unfolding drama of the end of oil Chevron tries to ameliorate it with soft short term profit words but when whatever end to oil comes it will have been reasonable to stop using it long before we did and to begin building the post-oil world made manifest on the very pages of this blog car free integral and a quarter revolution beyond binary silliness
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A new vision of how to change the economy

A new vision of how to change the economy is a combination of the following elementsbeyond sprawlredensifyingcar-freevibrant local economiescyber-communitycyber-cityintegration of work residence and everything elseSimply follow topics via searchOr the labels below

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Cyber-community 101 - Lesson Four Turbines are the future

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You can access prior lessons at the link above.

Cyber-communities are imagined settlements of the future

These nested lessons spell out the elements

Cyber-communities are dense enough 

to enable viable economies

Cyber-communities are walkable and sustainable

Cyber-communities possess all elements of city living

Cyber-communities integrate residence work 

recreation health and education

Turbines seem to me the most likely candidates for 

generating the energy needed to make these communities 

independent and sustainable

Turbines can be powered with both solar and wind 

Turbines can be so pervasive and attractive 

they make wind farms look like what they are

a bad and ugly investment

We need to build proper cyber-communities from scratch

Imagine a giant Stonehenge-like matrix whose vertical stones

each house 40 turbines

Simple!

Energy is distributed to all who live and work in the community

Surplus is saved or shared 

Most thought about this is hampered by our worship of oil and car

These retro things dictate current sad sprawl design

Cyber-communities are an evolution to sustainability 

with teeth

and an eye to global leadership

in the thought department 

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Cyber-community 101 - Lesson Four

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Cyber-community 101 - Lesson Four

A cyber-community must contain

most elements we associate with urban life

The cyber age reclaims the country

and re-casts the city

so its positive aspects are available to all

The crime aspects of the city

are minimized by 

two realities

Cyber-communities are diverse by design

Therefore their inhabitants are there by choice

not necessity

That enables a more neighborly sense

Cyber-communities

in their concentration and walkability

are vastly easier to police than

either city or sprawl areas

It would be understood for example

that public space is secure 

by consent of all

and that private space is private

All the aspects of a city are

scaled to a population of up to 10,000

Small theaters - 24/7 multi purpose venues

Commercial outlets - mainly kiosks connected to

global enterprises enabling pin-point

access to all products everywhere

Smaller and more nimble educational spaces

again shared and 24/7

Deployment of employed persons

to work in every one of the scaled down

facilities in the cyber-community

Living working recreating educating

all in the same space

Why must this be

Because concentration is inherently urban

Because residence in a cyber-community

enables privacy

Because life is short enough without

a car-sprawl component

And most of all

because we will be walking 

in the future to everything we need

to reach

for reasons that are obvious when you see this film

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Cyber-community 101 - Lesson Three

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 A cyber-community must be dense enough

to enable growth of a viable local economy

Why is this so

In the United States we suffer from 

too much dispersion in rural areas

No local economy can thrive there

In our metro areas

a combination of zoning

and concentration

inhibits the growth of natural

economies

A reasonable density for a viable local 

economy

is between 5,000 and 10,000

Such populations can support

local versions of

commercial

residential

cultural

educational

health

and recreational

facilities

These can be staffed by local people

A viable local economy will need in the future

to generate its own energy

When a community is dense enough 

and is free of most or all automobile traffic

it can develop new ways of

energy generation

even including energy generated by

human activity

and human interaction with

such things as

turbines 

and pendulums

developed for fitness

and play purposes

In the future people will choose diversity

characteristic of cities

in preference to monochromatic

stratified sprawl existence

Communities as envisioned here 

can exist in close proximity

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There will be no furniture in my cyber-communities

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There will be no furniture in my cyber cities

Minimalism is one reason but not the only one

Surfaces will be intelligent and versatile

Most things we call furniture

attach to surfaces

Soft things like pillows make

surfaces comfortable

My cyber-communities make do with less

but live better than now because 

it takes 5-10,000 people to pay for

the sustainability

of an eco-structure that

actually powers the community

using sun and wind and the energy

we can create by our own movements

Some one will build this some day

and the world will come into synch with what

is already there

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All the global generation issues are resolved in my cyber-communities

The Vanishing Valley - NYTimes.com: "The issues in the valley are the global challenges of our generation: water, land use, population, growing economic disparity."

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In a Cyber-Community 

(My imagined future)

We re-densify 

We live in 5-10K gatherings

Car free

Sustained on site

By the generation of 

energy serving all

The collection and reuse of water

By building modular in matrices

Conducting all things needed

In and out of spaces

We have all attributes

of urban living in a mile

We no longer zone things out

We bring everything in

We enhance common space

A square every 200 feet

Grass roots democracies

Mass produced components

replacing the car as the

generator of new economies

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A Quora Thread That Gives the Lie to the Anti-Government Folk

(16) Silicon Valley: Why has Silicon Valley proved difficult to copy? - Quora:

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Quora is becoming a magnet for intelligent responses to relevant questions.

I am tempted to say, in reference to the image, that that's better than the Secret Service, of late.

UPDATE

The celebration of Silicon Valley raises two questions for me.

Why has it produced no macro-industry - construction and transportation being the main ones. Its insights have informed everything without affecting the general lay of the land in terms of these two huge areas.

And if a concentration  of brains and money are deemed essential, why do we still venerate lone inventors who required no Silicon Valley. Peirce posited the logic that helped create the computer and was a social and academic reject.

If it is true that certain factors work to create prosperous and creative communities, there is surely room to posit a prosperity of scale where in every field one or more of my cyber-communities would ad to the social good.

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Cyber-Community Broadside Number One

10K persons diverse in every way living 

in an area made car free

Sharing a common structure for eco-sustainability

beyond the reach of any individual to afford

Having within walking distance education

health recreation dwellings commercial ventures

squares small play grounds 

A public space

as attracting to people as private spaces

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What is a cyber-enabled car-free community?

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10K persons diverse in every way living 

in an area made car free

Sharing a common structure for eco-sustainability

beyond the reach of any individual to afford

Having within walking distance education

health recreation dwellings commercial ventures

squares small play grounds 

A public space

as attracting to people as private spaces

Dwellings and all other structures

made of modular mass-produced elements

including smart walls and other surfaces

built-in structures for furniture and work sspaces 

in a safe and cord-free 

environment

In a cyber-community most present 

education and commerce runs out of

kiosk-like small facilities 

that are open much of the time

Education would be at once freer

and more interactive

Everything would be

Current institutions would adapt to the new form

but have functions similar to existing functions

People would live and work in the cyber-community

Most elements of the global culture would be 

available to all in an adaptation of today's 

sports bars

Cyber-communities can spring up

anywhere and become safe  face to face

environments for persons who live by

the shared values of democracy

helpfulness tolerance and non-idolatry

A  cyber-community is not a utopia

It is a grass-roots democracy that

runs as most town governments do

Moving beyond oil, detached sprawl

housing and cars is inevitable because

it creates a system that cannot be 

afforded in the future 

while doing nothing to make society 

more fulfilling

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Neither Party Understands the Economy

The economy will not recover 

Because the car industry was saved

The economy will not recover

Because there is an uptick in housing purchases or construction

The economy will not recover because either party

now has the policies to lead it toward new prosperity

Stasis and sclerosis will endure while both parties

compound delay by arguing for mutually wrong premises

You ask what is the right course

Simply this

Concede that the triumvirate of sprawl

oil dominance and the related businesses 

is anemic and a recipe for a century of

sclerosis war and untold poverty

Concede that a properly densified society

with communities of around 10K

Zoned for everything needed  to live

Car free 

Built on modular principles 

with a shared-ecostructure

Is the right track

Concede that the correct approach is outlined here

under the label cyber-community

The future must be sprawl free

Car free

Face to face community

Enabled by cyber-means

That nobody who should have seen this saw it

is cause for some skepticism that this simple answer

will be known in time to make a difference 

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Mucho Info on Pinterist Virality and Lego Walls

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I liked the part about the Lego Wall the best. Legois the model for the future - for the modular structures of the car-free cyber-community that will become the antidote to sprawl.

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