Margaret McCasland wrote: > Viewscapes! > To be contrary: I'd just point out that many people, even among those who love the natural world, like the viewscape of a city. There are cities that are exceptionally beautiful (I've never seen Paris, but Ottawa is a nearby gorgeous example), and there is some measure of beauty in the viewscape of every city I've visited. In Ithaca, the beginning of canyons in Collegetown is also something that I feel good about. It represents a concentration of vitality, focused around a great intellectual center. I only wish more of Ithaca's development took this direction instead of the pathetic clinging to rural fantasies that is driving McMansions especially along the east side of Cayuga Lake.
In my viewscapes, let cities be cities. I see nodal development as a wonderful way to contain the mischief caused by suburbanization, not as a good in itself. It seems to me that only by embracing cities can we hope to retain anything of the bucolic viewscapes of the past. Andrejs _______________________________________________ For more information about sustainability in the Tompkins County area, please visit: http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
