You said it, Zeke. Urban form, vehicles, fuels, and public transport all act
together. Any solution has to address all components. A lot of people are
working on various parts, but the parts never seem to come together or, worse,
the parts contradict one another. Like making 7 or 8 million cars a year to
justify the "tight" embodied technology and then expecting people to leave them
parked at home.
At the risk of becoming tedious, I repeat, cities change all the time, and the
way in which they change can and should be channelled in a better direction,
and now. Biofuel people need to get into urban form issues, and vice versa.
-Dawie
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Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Greenest and meanest of the year
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On 2/8/07, robert and benita rabello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Our neighborhood was designed to insulate families
from one another. The dearth of public spaces, the lack of commercial
development and recreational activities compel everyone to get into the
car and drive somewhere else.
Don't you understand how the economy works? If people in a community all walk
to a public space and talk amongst each other and play and actually become a
community, they aren't inside their miserable little houses watching TV and
seeing ads for stuff that they can then drive to the mall and buy. Buying
stuff and pharmaceuticals to try to make yourself not feel as depressed about
your meaningless life can't be sustained if you have too much human
socialization and start feeling better adjusted just from being around people
you like hanging out with.
Z
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