Interesting, Glen. In Pittsburgh we lived in a neighborhood that appealed to me more than any other I have ever lived in.
One block to the east of our house was the frick mansion and The Frick museum the former was a 22 room four story Victorian monstrosity which was nonetheless interesting to your. The museum was a beautiful Italian Renaissance with exhibitions of world class paintings. The two buildings were on an entire city block (5 acres). Between our house and the Frick were a row of expensive homes of various styles built in the forties(?). Our street was a cul-de-sac which had been the driveway of Andrew Carnegie's grand house but currently with mid-priced homes. One block to the west was a street with a mixture ranging from old homes used as apartments for students and young professionals to million dollar contemporary homes. At the end of our street were a small grocery store that had been there forever, a barber shop, an independent auto repair shop, and an old school which had been an elementary school but was used for a charter school. ----------------------------------- Frank Wimberly My memoir: https://www.amazon.com/author/frankwimberly My scientific publications: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2 Phone (505) 670-9918 On Wed, Jan 15, 2020, 11:02 AM uǝlƃ ☣ <[email protected]> wrote: > One example of the fine-grained downward feedbacks that can be installed > is mixed-income residential requirements. Many people where we used to live > complained that the people on the "other end of the street" didn't "show > pride of ownership". To translate from Modern Suburban, they didn't have > well-manicured grass lawns, the paint on their house is peeling, or they > have too many cars ... whatever made that property look bad to them, > basically. > > But what I saw was different socio-economic strata. I *enjoyed* living > near that 90 year old who decorated his yard with old broken tile (I could > stare at his designs for hours [†]) and the 20 year old high school dropout > who's trying to make a living playing in a death metal band while he works > 2 jobs as barista and bartender. My other neighbors did not *enjoy* living > next to those people. It's not clear to me _why_. > > I don't think it's a matter of getting out of the house after your day job > ... because I almost never do anything after I quit for the day, either. > There's something else going on ... something aesthetic. My persnickety > neighbors have some need for regularity that the rest of us don't have ... > like they want their "jigsaw" puzzles to have all square pieces or > something. > > [†] He died about a year ago and the property's now occupied by people who > "fit in" much better. [sigh] All the tile is gone. There's a new shed, new > driveway occupied by a Prius and a Toyota pickup, ... Ugh. Homogeneity > reigns. > > On 1/15/20 9:30 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > > Before brainstorming about how to integrate LANL, etc. into the St. > Michael / Cerrillos area, it might be worth asking why the town of Los > Alamos is so abysmal. Los Alamos county has one of the highest per capita > incomes in the country, and yet there is not a thing to spend money on up > there besides real estate. One reason I've heard is that the folks that > own the lots in the town find it more profitable to hold on to them and > rent to the lab when the need arises. Thus there is no way to build > anything. Another is that it is a family town, and oddly enough not a > town that facilitates workism -- people more-or-less work 9 to 5 and then > hang out at home, and want to. Or on the weekends they ski or hike. Its > always been astonishing to me that there aren't more restaurants. The > only conventional sign of progress is the big Smiths facility. > > -- > ☣ uǝlƃ > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC <http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/FRIAM-COMIC> > http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >
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