Elevators – socially uncomfortable spaces, conversation the exception, people feel awkward
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Car-centric cities – Car-cinogenic Cities
Co-housing city
Impractical to live at one end of London and work or have friends at the other end.
“The Fiasco of Suburbia” (Leon Krier, Poundbury architect)
a disaggregated wasteland of shrieking signage, throwaway architecture, and improvised public space (James Howard Kunstler)
Franchise Food Sheds – Strip Malls – Automobile slums – Universal car slum –
To Retrofit our cities to make them ecological is akin to holding back the tide
cost of roads and utilities far higher in suburbia