Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]There is a very plausible theory that the USA's gasoline addiction is directly tied up with its addiction to owning houses, The American Dream, if you will. The latter also leads to high unemployment by making workers less mobile during housing busts - they cannot sell their houses, so they cannot move to where the jobs are. It is a vicious circle. Cheers Jayanand On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>wrote: > Indeed. I am in total agreement with comment no. 12. What struck me about > those communities how car-dependent they are, and how they encourage > isolation. There are no centres, no facilities, these are places where you > drive to your specific house and lock yourself up. Nothing in the layout > stimulates any kind of community creation. > > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu > http://www.greatpix.eu > http://www.nathanfoto.com > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog > > YNWA > > > > > > On Oct 1, 2010, at 5:38 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote: > > > Thought provoking: > > > > > http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/09/human_landscapes_in_sw_florida.html > > > > Cheers > > Jayanand > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >