http://www.planetizen.com/news/item.php?id=6983
I find this study absoultely frightening. I'm at the age where I could be a Patio Man but I find the entire lifestyle pointless and absurd. And I've only seen the tip of the Sprinkler City dynamic in the old Midwest. My fellow Americans are more difficult for me to relate to than the chimps at the zoo. I can recognize some of their behaviors in myself. What room is there for Planning in the new suburbia? What can you be besides a technocrat who approves the lot sizes for the new subdivisions? Developers have engineered complete lifestyles for hundreds of thousands of people. What a world...
I find this study absoultely frightening. I'm at the age where I could be a Patio Man but I find the entire lifestyle pointless and absurd. And I've only seen the tip of the Sprinkler City dynamic in the old Midwest. My fellow Americans are more difficult for me to relate to than the chimps at the zoo. I can recognize some of their behaviors in myself. What room is there for Planning in the new suburbia? What can you be besides a technocrat who approves the lot sizes for the new subdivisions? Developers have engineered complete lifestyles for hundreds of thousands of people. What a world...