Greetings Economists,
On Jun 25, 2008, at 12:02 PM, Charles Brown wrote:
CB: What about with extensive and holistic ( "centralized" ugh)
planning everybody lived very close to where they worked, and
therefore
virtually everybody walked to work; and even for somewhat longer
trips ,
all those ambulatory walked to where they had to go , giving the side
health benefit of much exercise; and to avoid parochialism, geographic
rotation for everybody to new work places/homes periodically ?
Doyle;
Very appealing to me as a scenario, but lets' try to envision what
precedes the change over to such close living. First that the massive
sprawl culture is broken badly enough to pressure such changes. Not
just a migration back to the centers, but instilling close living as
the best way to live? A big cultural break like that takes time, I
guess years to engender into social force. A radical force at that.
Not just transportation and work being adjacent, but a break down of
individual separation in the culture that fleeing on the road has
meant 'freedom' up to this point.
I could see 'nodes' emerging, not just speculative housing options in
which volunteers collaborate, but some cities in the hands of a
political minority bent upon rebuilding the 'city'. Remaking culture
at the foundations. Really bringing back up again what China once
faced. What is the commune culture? If one mixes in potent global
forces for example other nodes elsewhere offering options to this new
culture then it could be quite powerful. And offering as a foundation
a new base for other working class structures to build upon.
thanks,
Doyle Saylor
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