Thursday, January 7, 2010
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Sprawling From Grace, Driven To Madness
A short youtube clip I stumbled upon...check it out..
Description from the video:
On DVD April 21st, pre-order now at the Cinema Libre Studio Storehttp://store.cinemalibrestore.com/spr...
This feature length documentary explores the ravages of American suburban sprawl, what America has lost as a result, and the perils we face if we don't change the way in which we build our cities. Americans have been lulled into a false sense of security by cheap energy that has allowed us to spread endlessly into our landscape. We are trapped behind the wheels of our automobiles. With the demand for oil outpacing the Earth's ability to supply it, this suburban living arrangement will fail. America's love affair with the automobile is straining and, like Nero, we are fiddling away, confident that tomorrow will be as promising as today. The wake up call is coming.
Featured in this film are, Former Massechusettes Governor Michael Dukakis, Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper, Famed Urban Designer Peter Calthorpe, Author of the Long Emergency James Howard Kunstler, and Former President Bill Clinton
Description from the video:
On DVD April 21st, pre-order now at the Cinema Libre Studio Storehttp://store.cinemalibrestore.com/spr...
This feature length documentary explores the ravages of American suburban sprawl, what America has lost as a result, and the perils we face if we don't change the way in which we build our cities. Americans have been lulled into a false sense of security by cheap energy that has allowed us to spread endlessly into our landscape. We are trapped behind the wheels of our automobiles. With the demand for oil outpacing the Earth's ability to supply it, this suburban living arrangement will fail. America's love affair with the automobile is straining and, like Nero, we are fiddling away, confident that tomorrow will be as promising as today. The wake up call is coming.
Featured in this film are, Former Massechusettes Governor Michael Dukakis, Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper, Famed Urban Designer Peter Calthorpe, Author of the Long Emergency James Howard Kunstler, and Former President Bill Clinton
SPRAWL!!!!!!!
Suburban Sprawl......
For those of us that grew up in the suburbs...spending hours in a commute is just life as we have known it for years. For those that grew up in the city, your life was painted in an all different ink..
Suburbanites pride themselves on their grassy lawns, big backyards, big homes, three car garages, and everything else associated with suburbia...and then Monday through Friday we commute right back into the city we left clogging up the highways, and roads and essentially creating a false sense of URBAN VITALITY between 8:00am and 6:00pm during the weekdays....
My thoughts are that this false sense of Urban Vitality will begin to transform back into a more real and lasting sense of vitality with our generation and the next because our desires are not to move back into the places from which we came but to move and settle and explore the unknown, better known as the American Metropolis..
For those of us that grew up in the suburbs...spending hours in a commute is just life as we have known it for years. For those that grew up in the city, your life was painted in an all different ink..
Suburbanites pride themselves on their grassy lawns, big backyards, big homes, three car garages, and everything else associated with suburbia...and then Monday through Friday we commute right back into the city we left clogging up the highways, and roads and essentially creating a false sense of URBAN VITALITY between 8:00am and 6:00pm during the weekdays....
My thoughts are that this false sense of Urban Vitality will begin to transform back into a more real and lasting sense of vitality with our generation and the next because our desires are not to move back into the places from which we came but to move and settle and explore the unknown, better known as the American Metropolis..
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
