resolutepeasant

I mean our methods for getting food, for moving about the landscape, for deploying capital, for trading and manufacturing, for schooling, doctoring, and running public services all destabilize and, to some degree or other, fail to deliver their contribution to normal daily life. Banking (capital deployment) is already mortally wounded. It remains ( Read more... )

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resolutepeasant Apr 05, 2009 17:45

"... we're not going back to a "consumer" economy. We're heading into a hard work economy in which people derive their pleasures and gratification more traditionally -- mainly through the company of their fellow human beings..." [22]

"Please stop referring to yourselves as consumers. "Consumers" are different than citizens. Consumers do not have ( Read more... )

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resolutepeasant Apr 05, 2009 17:17

I watched Jeff Speck who co authored a book entitled Suburban Nation: The rise of Sprawl and the decline of the American Dream give a presentation on how the city could improve things to make our downtown more pedestrian friendly to the Oklahoma city council. Everything he suggested was just perfect... The fact that the city hired him to do a study ( Read more... )