A Global Question Answered At Likemind This Friday

3 Responses to “A Global Question Answered At Likemind This Friday”

1. Heather
   Posted from: 67.171.179.249

   October 17th, 2007 at 1:16 pm

   Great question!
   These days we have to think about everything globally. Everything we do today impacts everyone around us, as well as the future.

   I talk about that in today’s blog on Retail Design Diva - global warming is affecting the fashion industry. And NOW they are starting to listen…http://retaildesigndiva.blogs.com/

   -Heather
2. thejohngrant@btinternet.com
   Posted from: 212.214.188.34

   October 18th, 2007 at 4:33 am

   Cant come along friday (shame)

   I wouldnt start from scratch. Not only is futurism wasteful but it rips up our few remaining emotional connections with place. Imagine London with straight streets! I’d make energy efficiency improvements and then re-use all the buildings to create different kinds of denser, greener, nicer neighbourhoods. Communal sharing would be the core principle. Launderettes part powered by the treadmills from an adjoining gym. Affordable, funky, boarding house hotels solving the young people cant afford to leave home crisis, Anything with concrete on which wasnt enabling green home deliveries and a stroll to amenities and shared workspaces would be dug up and planted. Tall glass buildings would be full of tomato plants. You could own a car, but with more than progressive taxation frankly it would be cheaper to own a helicopter.

   Of course this was the idea behind communist city planning and the reality left some to be desired. It’s hard to imagine these changes without some changes (£10m Russian owned penthouse apartments and the general property ratrace would get in the way). But maybe a global economic meltdown is coming and if so after the second great depression then we will really have to rebuild our cities from scratch.
3. Adam
   Posted from: 87.84.235.18

   October 18th, 2007 at 9:31 am

   My biggest headache about living and working in a city like London is the transport infrastructure. Whether rebuilding the city would have made a massive change to the infrastructure is something we’re not likely to find out, but i think moving forward as a city we need to really think about how we do that. Encouraging more people to cycle is a start and in some cases has worked, but i don’t think enough is being done. Maybe we should adopt some of the schemes and transport initiatives being developed in other cities around the world.

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