This perfectly captures the absurdity of current urban policy. The part about converting commute time into community time during 2021-2022 hit home for me, I started going to my local bookshop every morning and now it closed becuase everyone's back on the freeway. It's wild how we're literally choosing to abandon the infrastrucure we spent decades building.
That bookshop closing is the exact data point that proves the "systems failure."
Third Places rely on dwell time...the surplus minutes we have before and after work. When we shift that time back to the freeway, we aren't just losing hours; we are physically starving the local network we spent decades building.
We have the hardware for a village, but we forced a reboot back to the commuter OS. It is painful to watch that investment evaporate.
This perfectly captures the absurdity of current urban policy. The part about converting commute time into community time during 2021-2022 hit home for me, I started going to my local bookshop every morning and now it closed becuase everyone's back on the freeway. It's wild how we're literally choosing to abandon the infrastrucure we spent decades building.
That bookshop closing is the exact data point that proves the "systems failure."
Third Places rely on dwell time...the surplus minutes we have before and after work. When we shift that time back to the freeway, we aren't just losing hours; we are physically starving the local network we spent decades building.
We have the hardware for a village, but we forced a reboot back to the commuter OS. It is painful to watch that investment evaporate.