Enjoyed this presentation - Mr. Kunstler was very pointed in identifying the problem of sprawl. I agree with him on his criticism of stark architectural designs of public buildings that add insult to injury with wasted space inside and out. The concept he presented of creating a self-contained community is being tested today in several areas across the state - attached and detached single family housing, multi-family housing, retail for service and support of the community. All in all though they are still bedroom in concept in that the people still need to travel to where they work. In these communities they save on fuel costs once they get home in that they don't have to travel far for groceries, a beer and sandwich or the drycleaning. I agree with his thought thad we can use the areas already developed - instead of turning new land to build a bigger box store look at the vacant areas first and try to rehab them - we are at the perfect junction for such a project with the economy forcing a lot of vacancies on residential and commercial properties.
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