Our Kiwi correspondent sends in some favoured articles:
City living will feel like a blast from the past (from USA Today).
Andres Duany predicts:
In the next American metropolis, people will live in smaller homes, relax in smaller yards, park their smaller cars in smaller spots. They will be closer to work, to play and, above all, to one another.
Global warming will be a fait accompli in 30 years, and so these urban Americans will raise their own food, in fields and on rooftops, and build structures to withstand everything from hurricane winds to Formosan termites.
They will walk and ride more and drive less. And they will like it.
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Parklets gone wild – this one in Lexington, Kentucky:
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Can bohemia be saved? Will Doig talks with Robert Anasi, author of “The Last Bohemia: Scenes From the Life of Williamsburg,”and speculates in Salon:
An urban utopia for almost no money — old-timers wax nostalgic about it, and newcomers curse their luck for being too late. But is Anasi right? Are urban bohemias, you know, so over?
“Capitalism has gotten really good at picking up on these trends and using bohemias as a source of R&D to develop new products and sponsor new trends,” says Anasi. “Ad agencies send their reps there to see what the kids are up to.” …
… as Anasi puts it, bohemias “need to be ignored.”
“people will live in smaller homes, relax in smaller yards, park their smaller cars in smaller spots. They will be closer to work, to play and, above all, to one another.”
Sound like the Yorkshire I grew up in in the ’30’s with one exception . . . no cars!