Comments on: Parking Lots to Parks: Designing Livable Cities http://permaculture.org.au/2010/05/28/parking-lots-to-parks-designing-livable-cities/ Permaculture News, Commentary and Worldwide Projects. Tue, 22 May 2012 14:23:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Aslanded http://permaculture.org.au/2010/05/28/parking-lots-to-parks-designing-livable-cities/#comment-48502 Aslanded Sat, 29 May 2010 23:13:44 +0000 http://permaculture.org.au/?p=3184#comment-48502 I like the idea of building new cities and doing it properly, high density and very little need for cars, not abandoning the existing ones, but just taking the pressure off them and halting the vast sprawl which is smothering our urban centers. New cities will give us a chance to showcase what is possible and give benchmarks for the old cities to strive to. We need high density centers surrounded by farm land, and connected by high speed rail similar to what Soleri has been trying to do. www.arcosanti.org I like the idea of building new cities and doing it properly, high density and very little need for cars, not abandoning the existing ones, but just taking the pressure off them and halting the vast sprawl which is smothering our urban centers. New cities will give us a chance to showcase what is possible and give benchmarks for the old cities to strive to. We need high density centers surrounded by farm land, and connected by high speed rail similar to what Soleri has been trying to do. http://www.arcosanti.org

]]> By: Øyvind Holmstad http://permaculture.org.au/2010/05/28/parking-lots-to-parks-designing-livable-cities/#comment-48449 Øyvind Holmstad Fri, 28 May 2010 07:59:03 +0000 http://permaculture.org.au/?p=3184#comment-48449 Do not allow more than 9% of the land in any given area to be used for parking: http://downlode.org/Etext/Patterns/ptn22.html Here is a useful list of links according to New Urbanism: http://www.notsobighouse.com/urbanism.asp And how should our towns be like? How should we feel like living in our towns? Here is the answer: "When we are as ordinary as that, with nothing left in any of our actions, except what is required – then we can make towns and buildings which are as infinitely various, and peaceful, and as wild and living, as the fields of windblown grass. Almost everybody feels at peace with nature: listening to the ocean waves against the shore, by a still lake, in a field of grass, on a windblown heath. One day, when we have learned the timeless way again, we shall feel the same about our towns, and we shall feel as much at peace in them, as we do today walking by the ocean, or stretched out in the long grass of a meadow." Christopher Alexander, “The Timeless Way of Building”, page 549. Do not allow more than 9% of the land in any given area to be used for parking: http://downlode.org/Etext/Patterns/ptn22.html

Here is a useful list of links according to New Urbanism: http://www.notsobighouse.com/urbanism.asp

And how should our towns be like? How should we feel like living in our towns? Here is the answer:

“When we are as ordinary as that, with nothing left in any of our actions, except what is required – then we can make towns and buildings which are as infinitely various, and peaceful, and as wild and living, as the fields of windblown grass.

Almost everybody feels at peace with nature: listening to the ocean waves against the shore, by a still lake, in a field of grass, on a windblown heath. One day, when we have learned the timeless way again, we shall feel the same about our towns, and we shall feel as much at peace in them, as we do today walking by the ocean, or stretched out in the long grass of a meadow.”

Christopher Alexander, “The Timeless Way of Building”, page 549.

]]> By: Daniel http://permaculture.org.au/2010/05/28/parking-lots-to-parks-designing-livable-cities/#comment-48446 Daniel Fri, 28 May 2010 07:26:39 +0000 http://permaculture.org.au/?p=3184#comment-48446 I don't like the idea of building new cities. We should reduce our impact and slowly start to give some of the occupied land back to the wildlife. I don’t like the idea of building new cities. We should reduce our impact and slowly start to give some of the occupied land back to the wildlife.

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