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- From: ens@ccu.umanitoba.ca
- Subject: Re: Cars, Cities and Choices
- Message-ID: <1992Jul26.080450.13473@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
- Keywords: Cars Transit Cities
- Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
- References: <ajpbart.711966671@adam.adelaide.edu.au> <1992Jul25.171456.12988@ke4zv.uucp>
- Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 08:04:50 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul25.171456.12988@ke4zv.uucp> gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman) writes:
- >
- >On the other side, I think it should not be done. Instead, the city should
- >take it's evolution to the logical conclusion and dispense with city centers
- >completely. The revolutions in communications, manufacturing, distribution,
- >and sales no longer require a central hub. Any attempt to impose one will
- >fail because the usage patterns have permanently changed. There is no longer
- >a need to attempt to cram everyone into a small central core every morning.
- >It's still being done to a large extent, but that's inertia from a previous
- >way of organizing commerce where face to face interaction was critical to
- >commercial success. Urban areas should evolve toward the requirements of
- >the future instead to trying to emulate obsolete patterns of the past. The
- >downtown is a dinosaur that hasn't got the message that it is dead yet.
- >
-
- I much prefer the vibrant, social atmosphere of the pedestrian
- oriented European cities (or some older N.American cities like Quebec
- City) to the impersonal 6-lane downtown of most American cities
- (including mine).
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