El Camino Get Real

Tear down the past to build the future since 1776!

Alf Doten Wrote:
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> The video brings up some interesting points about
> urban planning and the modern world.
> Along came the Interstate Highway System, detached
> airports, the shopping mall and endless housing
> developments all premised on the internal
> combustion engine. You need GPS just to find an
> address, get something to eat or locate a public
> toilet. Time was not long ago the railroad depot
> determined where the hotel was, the post office,
> restaurants, the hardware store, even gas stations
> and the Greyhound Bus Depot. It brought order out
> of chaos. The most analogous thing today is the
> freeway offramp to a cluster of name brand motels,
> fast food joints and truck stop filling stations
> with a sign pointing to the nearby "town" 5 miles
> away. You don't just live in Tracy or Stockton but
> whatever developers name or ranch that your
> residential district happens to have been named
> after. The geographic name often has no "sense of
> place" except you might find the police station or
> "city hall" nearby>