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The Urban JEANius. This blog will explore many topics in the realm of City and Regional Planning, Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture and other similar topics and how they relate to urban life, minorities, equality, education, and whatever topics you want to discuss. The goal of this blog is to increase awareness amongst communities who are traditionally underrepresented in this field as well serve as a venue for discussion about current trends in this field...

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

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..

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