From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Feb 10 2003 - 14:59:58 MST
--- Gary Miller <garymiller@starband.net> wrote:
> I saw an interesting company in Northern Ohio, can't remember the
> name
> right now, but at the same time they built their new manufacturing
> facility in a highly rural area, they built a housing development and
> apartment complex within eyesight of the plant and opened the housing
> only to company employees.
The concept of the urban village has been around for a decade or so. In
the mid 90's there was a push in Seattle to build its development plans
around the concept to reduce traffic and the need for mass transit.
Until the 1930's, much of the world worked this way. It was only when
highways were invented that there came great amounts of separation
between one's residence and place of employment.
What I have failed to see here is anybody saying that there just isn't
a real need for planned communities like this for much longer. With the
internet, people should be able to live wherever they want and obtain
whatever products, jobs, services etc they wish online.
The internet as a medium of commerce is the greatest tool for reducing
pollution the world has ever seen.
=====
Mike Lorrey
"Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
- Gen. John Stark
"Pacifists are Objectively Pro-Fascist." - George Orwell
"Treason doth never Prosper. What is the Reason?
For if it Prosper, none Dare call it Treason..." - Ovid
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