Monday, May 23, 2005
Community Unity
Suburbs? What do you think of them? To me, they are just a place to live. There is no feeling of togetherness with the neighbors, nor is there any local place to go to to buy things or meet - one has to go to shopping malls and Wal-Mart. Further, suburbs foster disunity in a metropolitan region. This lack of unity will hurt when Peak Oil's effects begin to be really felt. It is interesting that both anti-suburbia writers, such as James Kunstler and pro-suburbia writers, such as Joel Kotkin in the Richmond Times Dispatch, come to this conclusion. The Kotkin link is to his book on Amazon.com.
Today, an editorial by Adele MacLean appeared in the Times-Dispatch. (after a few days, this link probably will become dead). She is advocating more unity in the Richmond-Petersburg area. She does not advocate setting up new programs to promote regionalism in the Richmond-Petersburg area. Instead, she is asking that we listen to each other.
Perhaps we can start with that, and maybe the rest of the pieces will fall together, as to how to deal with fragmented metropolitan areas, or even maybe Peak Oil.
Today, an editorial by Adele MacLean appeared in the Times-Dispatch. (after a few days, this link probably will become dead). She is advocating more unity in the Richmond-Petersburg area. She does not advocate setting up new programs to promote regionalism in the Richmond-Petersburg area. Instead, she is asking that we listen to each other.
Perhaps we can start with that, and maybe the rest of the pieces will fall together, as to how to deal with fragmented metropolitan areas, or even maybe Peak Oil.
