🚀 go-pugleaf

We have chucked common sense in this area (once again) for a
environmentally unfriendly, anti-social, incongruous economic automobile
oriented - Big Mac - cul de sac lifestyle.  A recent newspaper article
stated that Guilderland Central H.S., located in Albany County, NY - ripped
up several trees (# unknown) dedicated to the memorial of students who
passed on (the large part due to the automobile carnage) and replaced them
with a parking lot.  This is an educational institution that teaches
philosophy and the meaning of symbolism in literature.

"Historically Americans have not had a high regard for the public realm,
and this is a very unfortunate thing, because the public realm is the
physical manifestation of the common good. When you degrade the public
realm, as we have, you degrade the common good, and hence you impair the
ability of a group of people incorporated as a republic to think about the
public interest."  James Kunsler, Death of a Town, Geography of Nowhere

Currently there is only one solution to the social and economic problems
facing our community and nation as a whole.......It is the total rethinking
of zoning laws, better planning, higher population densities, better mass
transit and less suburban sprawl.

In other words cut the crap and move back to the cities.

T. Adamson