My brain doesn't seem to be engaging its moderation filters properly. Maybe it's because I'm absolutely, physically exhausted to the point where I can't sleep and have constant tremors. Anyway. It came up at work today, and I was asked to think about how to save the suburbs. I wasn't moderate; I suggested turning them back into farmland. That in turn brought back all kinds of memories about our old family farm, the land, half a county's worth, that my great-grandfather and his uncles and brothers assembled for purposes of resource extraction - farming, timber, ranching, hunting, mineral rights - you get the picture. Part of that land was a former town. It wasn't much of a town, a family that hoped to expand, named the place something-ville, after themselves, I think. It was on a dirt road that had once been the equivalent of the interstate highway, that ran along a railroad track. By the time I knew the place there were only two or three old houses left that my family was using for hay and equipment storage. I still have an old cheese cover that my grandmother dug up at one of the houses. I'm tired, I'm daydreaming. But remembering that made me think that there are historic cycles of abandonment and renewal, and now may be a time of abandonment and retrenchment.
In a previous post I was blasting off immoderately and being offensive, which is never good. Part of my professional work will be working with suburbs, making them better, making regional connections work better. Some places may be returned to nature, too. The President even has an initiative that has identified 50 cities that may need to shrink to survive. That means clearing parts of the cities and condensing what remains into a smaller, more compact area, to keep services more efficient (and maintain any hope of civic service at all). We are not just changing current development patterns; we are radically remaking or unmaking what has already been done. This is something that may continue and spread. Carol Coletta speaks of the migration of the young creative class between cities. Out of 50 cities, 16 have gained the 25-34 year old population; 34 cities have lost. There are implications to that which I am too tired to work. I'm not 34. I'm old, and feel a lot older than I actually am right now.
In a previous post I was blasting off immoderately and being offensive, which is never good. Part of my professional work will be working with suburbs, making them better, making regional connections work better. Some places may be returned to nature, too. The President even has an initiative that has identified 50 cities that may need to shrink to survive. That means clearing parts of the cities and condensing what remains into a smaller, more compact area, to keep services more efficient (and maintain any hope of civic service at all). We are not just changing current development patterns; we are radically remaking or unmaking what has already been done. This is something that may continue and spread. Carol Coletta speaks of the migration of the young creative class between cities. Out of 50 cities, 16 have gained the 25-34 year old population; 34 cities have lost. There are implications to that which I am too tired to work. I'm not 34. I'm old, and feel a lot older than I actually am right now.
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