The Strip Mall Must Die
Mar. 26th, 2007 03:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
forsythThis post over at Worldchanging has a lot of good links, and is a pretty good summary of everything they're trying to get at there. And many of the articles linked to there are full of good ideas. Especially the tool library one, how many things do we have that we don't use that often and don't really want or need the thing, just what it does? Washing machines etc, for one, we don't want the machine, just clean clothes. You're smart folks I bet you can come up with dozens of others.
But the MAIN point of the article is the feel I was trying to get at in the visions post a while back. Some people look at a problem and say we all need to cut back and live like it's the 50s or 1900s or whatever, but a) that's not going to fly with most people, and b) We really don't. But in the end, if they're for the same kinds of things that need to get done, they're on my side, even if I think their reasons aren't always right. That doesn't mean I have to agree with them about everything, or anything like that, but at least we both see the same problem and can work together on some of the solutions, and argue about the others. And frankly, to redo all the systems that have just grown up and been kludged together into something that can work for everybody, and without ruining the world, we're gonna need all the help we can get.
Strip malls are just one of the many signs of things that need to be fixed.
But the MAIN point of the article is the feel I was trying to get at in the visions post a while back. Some people look at a problem and say we all need to cut back and live like it's the 50s or 1900s or whatever, but a) that's not going to fly with most people, and b) We really don't. But in the end, if they're for the same kinds of things that need to get done, they're on my side, even if I think their reasons aren't always right. That doesn't mean I have to agree with them about everything, or anything like that, but at least we both see the same problem and can work together on some of the solutions, and argue about the others. And frankly, to redo all the systems that have just grown up and been kludged together into something that can work for everybody, and without ruining the world, we're gonna need all the help we can get.
Strip malls are just one of the many signs of things that need to be fixed.
