Ian Anderson
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I was over at Planetizen today and found this interesting headline:
"Cary, N.C.: Successful Suburbia"
I thought it was interesting, to think of suburbia as being "successful." This made me wonder: given the implied meaning connoted by the headline, how is it that suburbia is unsuccessful? I grew up in suburbia. I feel good about myself. I had friends. I played. And once I became a teen-ager, I drove eveywhere, too. But not once did I ever think it was a "successful" place to live. Not even professionally had I ever considered my hometown to be "successful" or not. What do you think, are there "successful" suburbs? Or is all of suburbia a wasteland? Apparently the latter can't be completely true (unless there are things I hadn't considered), but in thinking about the spirit of these message boards, what virtue does suburbia hold, if any?
P.S. The URL for this article is:
http://www.planetizen.com/news/item.php?id=3348
Also, the article was contributed by the Congress for the New Urbanism, and a link there takes you to the original article at National Geographic at:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0106/feature7/index.html
"Cary, N.C.: Successful Suburbia"
I thought it was interesting, to think of suburbia as being "successful." This made me wonder: given the implied meaning connoted by the headline, how is it that suburbia is unsuccessful? I grew up in suburbia. I feel good about myself. I had friends. I played. And once I became a teen-ager, I drove eveywhere, too. But not once did I ever think it was a "successful" place to live. Not even professionally had I ever considered my hometown to be "successful" or not. What do you think, are there "successful" suburbs? Or is all of suburbia a wasteland? Apparently the latter can't be completely true (unless there are things I hadn't considered), but in thinking about the spirit of these message boards, what virtue does suburbia hold, if any?
P.S. The URL for this article is:
http://www.planetizen.com/news/item.php?id=3348
Also, the article was contributed by the Congress for the New Urbanism, and a link there takes you to the original article at National Geographic at:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0106/feature7/index.html