What nobody gets about the future

For what it's worth here is what I would sayNo one is getting about the futureThat the day of driving our lives away will endThat the day of building detached houses will endThat the race to save these things will impede the futureThat the future will be either necessity or choiceWe could freely decide to move to car free communities and a high tech alternativeTo today's sclerotic and impossible transportationOr we could be forced into ultimately conceding the conclusions aboveChoice is vastly better than necessityWe could create multi-zoned car-free cyber-communitiesWith modular spaces build within an eco-sufficient matrixWith reformed education because the neighborhood becomes a schoolBy accepting their ultimate necessityAnd modeling new forms of social beingWhere we could walk to everythingWhere the need for  necessary travel is trumped by technologyWhere the need for urban in gratified in the micro environmentWhere cyber means that we utilize cyberAs communal experience via kiosks staffed and placedThroughout the cyber-communityAnd so forth and so on as noted hereAnd in the blog complex
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Car Free Is The Future

Creating a 'Car-Free' Community - NYTimes.com: "In a new suburban district of Freiburg, Germany that discourages driving — a “car-reduced” community called Vauban — there are only two places to park a car, and both are at the edge of the development. As I note in my story in Tuesday’s New York Times, 70 percent of Vauban’s families do not own cars, and 57 percent sold a car to move there."

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Cars Have No Place within an Integral Community

We can have no move to change we can believe in 

until the deleterious dictatorship of the automobile is ended 

Happily it can be ended from place to place 

by simply building new car-free communities 

or adapting existing neighborhoods 

None of the benefits to children compare 

with having a settlement where you can 

walk out the front and be on a promenade 

and not get run down by a car 

And have a whole world within walking distance

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Beyond Today's Stratified Society and its Sprawl Design

What Does Lego Have to Do with the Future of Society?, Page 2 of 4 - Associated Content from Yahoo! - associatedcontent.com: Our biggest social problem is that we are captives of the current stratified design of everything. In my proposed urban-like settlements, you live there because you want to. If you want diversity, go for it. If you want an interest group, go for it. And so on and so forth. A zillion points of light as it were. Communities of 5-10,000 linked by public transit, cars on the outside not all over as now.


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Food and Cooking in Tomorrow's Cyber Cities

What Does Lego Have to Do with the Future of Society?, Page 2 of 4 - Associated Content from Yahoo! - associatedcontent.com: "The cost of buying take-out food is about equal to the cost of buying and preparing food from scratch in a kitchen, especially if the family unit grows smaller. In the customized mix of my lego-blocks, I could see dwellings with nothing but a cooling unit and a small heating unit for food. I can also see dwellings with a Julia Child-worthy cooking area. There might be communal dining, because neighborhoods would be vastly more integrated in my proposed urban-like communities than they are in today's sprawl."


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The Coming Growth of Cyber Cities Replacing Sprawl

What Does Lego Have to Do with the Future of Society?, Page 2 of 4 - Associated Content from Yahoo! - associatedcontent.com: "I envision he units (living spaces) of new urban communities to be mass-produced, replacing our auto industry. I see them as lego-like cubes one can buy or lease just like cars. And move from place to place or resell. Just like cars. I am trying to create a leap-frog to a new world that will actually get the integral job done on the ground. Instead of turning it into an expensive New Age course for the elite."

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Lego-like Modular Construction

What Does Lego Have to Do with the Future of Society? - Associated Content from Yahoo! - associatedcontent.com: "In essence, the elements of a dwelling in my notion would be easily placed, easily moved, easily tied in to other elements. They would be the 'lego blocks' of human settlement. They would be strong. They would have built in ledges and storage areas that would otherwise require all manner of micro-work on-site in a custom built home."

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The Primacy of One's Own Room

What Does Lego Have to Do with the Future of Society? - Associated Content from Yahoo! - associatedcontent.com: "The basic unit of design for any community is one's own room. I see this as meeting the need of individuals for space. One's own room could be small if it was merely an office sort of thing. If one lived alone. It could encompass one's whole private existence. In family settings, a child's own room could be quite small, mainly a place to sleep. But such spaces could be tied to a common play area. In essence, the elements of a dwelling in my notion would be easily placed, easily moved, easily tied in to other elements."

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We should be able to change living arrangements as easily as we change cars

What Does Lego Have to Do with the Future of Society? - Associated Content from Yahoo! - associatedcontent.com: "Our society is a melange of differing relational units and no one can anticipate the shape or composition of a family or communal living of the future. The clear need in a human settlement is the capacity to freely create and change living arrangements."

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Zoning is a slave to the automobile and oil economy

Zoning as practiced throughout much of the world is a slave to the automobile and oil economy and a huge barrier to to integral planning for the future. The aim of future zoning should be to create car free areas where there can be a mix of residence, commerce, education, recreation and human services. We need a democratic groundswell for a revision of car-centric zoning.

 

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