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Oil on our hands
- Category: Walkable Communities
- Published on Friday, 11 June 2010 00:01
Oil spill got you down, Bunky? Seeing all those pictures of pelicans covered with muck just making you sick? Are you asking yourself, “Why won’t someone do something about this?” or maybe screaming “Those crooks at BP need to be thrown in jail!”
Do you sit behind the wheel of your car idling in a traffic jam during your morning commute listening to the news on your radio, and all it seems to have is one story after another of this disaster unfolding, and it just gets you more and more depressed?
And are you thinking that maybe we should all just boycott those evil bastards at BP to teach them a lesson?
Is that what’s getting you down, Bunky?
As usual, the media, the president, and the general population have completely managed to avoid the most salient aspect of this horrific disaster, which simply is this:
If you have bought into the lifestyle that you cannot maintain without the use of your automobile, then you are a part of this problem. That oil well out there might just as well have your name on it.
Frank Gruber on “Cityism“
- Category: Walkable Communities
- Published on Sunday, 02 August 2009 00:34
“While the tenets of Cityism describe a course that has been used and could be replicated to build congenial cities, those tenets would have less impact in most situations than making the public schools good, or in general creating a sense of good order in what can now seem to be chaotic environments. Bad schools and even the perception of disorder drive people from the city more effectively than bad urban form (although bad urban form can contribute to a sense of disorder), and keeping people in the city is more important than the form the city takes.”