When looking at our built world it seems evident that that which divides us also connects us. The basic logic of our transportation system is to get “stuff” people, kids, goods, and parents, whatever, to wherever they are going. It is only unfortunate enough that such a system that has provided us with so much — now seems to have a strangle hold on us. To cross a neighbor you need to frogger your way across even the mildest 4-lane road. This blog will start to look at solutions that will connect back our cities.

America can not be scared out of suburban living:
Change will only come though two alternatives.

Economic collapse or
Shown a better alternative
This page attempts to solve the latter.

Could we couple: Sustainability with economically viability, Freedom with opportunity, And a new possibility with in an existing city.

PHASE ONE: Stole at your own pace.

Pedestrians are given prominence and cars stops while you walk on. If one of our goals is for a "Carbon-Neutral City" or at least to work towards one, a simple solution would be to focus on making walking/biking more enjoyable.

To rebuild our cities we need to be able to build them on a backbone that can handle them.

In an experiment to reclaim a old abandoned lot in Chicago and restore it to the prairie it once was an essential tool was discovered. After ten years of exhausting attendance to the plot the missing member was found, and this missing ingredient was fire.

"It hatched certain fire-triggered seeds, it eliminated intruding tree saplings, it kept fire-intolerant urban competitor down." Out of Control Kevin Kelly pg. 59

Pedestrian path must compete and even win in some cases against vehicular roads. If a system of coevolution does not accrue cars (and by extension us) like every animal without a check or balance will use up its supply and collapse.

Soon plants were returning that biologist thought were long dead in the area. Drought killed no native species and visiting blue birds made an endorsement on the site. What became obvious to Packard, the caretaker of the lot, was not only was the law of increasing returns taking effect, but the order in which species were added had an effect on the whole system. Lets hope we start to turn our priorities around.