I hope the winner of this call get all sent to live for 2 years in small (and not so small) unknown towns in Europe that have been growing organically for thousands of years and offer a great quality of life.
Places where rich and poor, kids, young adults, adults and elderly all live happily together (modulo the usual father-and-son generational problems).
Seriously, planners in "new" countries should be forced to spend some time in "old" countries, if not to learn the good things, at least to learn their mistakes.
Places where rich and poor, kids, young adults, adults and elderly all live happily together (modulo the usual father-and-son generational problems).
Seriously, planners in "new" countries should be forced to spend some time in "old" countries, if not to learn the good things, at least to learn their mistakes.
And another compulsory thing should be listening to James Howard Kunstler talking about Suburbia: https://www.ted.com/talks/james_howard_kunstler_dissects_sub...