One more, this time in the embedded video below.
Your urbanist friends will not like the Burb Twins, potential antagonists to the new development and consumption patterns which characterize Richard Florida’s The Great Reset.
Enjoy, and for the original “six postcards not to send to an urbanist,” click here.
The Thoreau-like cottage first identified here presents imagery of renewal in the urban woods. Collectively, these vignettes present a city cabin on the way to rebirth in an era of green, retaining existing walls as an element of land use permitting, in order to facilitate such rebuilding in a constrained, hillside setting. Small-scale projects like this one may be the true harbingers of the changing American metropolis.
A woman and girl, of diverse age, show respective urban gestures: one of universal cellphone pragmatism, and the other of wistful play on a screened balcony.
Envision this dream sequence of right-of-way confusion, contrasting a portion of Rome’s legendary Via Appia (the “queen of the long roads” of ancient military transport and commerce) with an American suburban street.
The scary part? No sidewalks.
From the streets of three continents, private places beckon.
