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Why didn't you want to understand me? Why didn't you want to love my family? Why didn't you want to see my beautiful daughter grow up? My wife wanted to fill our garden with flowers, and she made a good start. In the Gjøvik song the town is told to be a place of flowers. So why didn't this town make a fertile ground for her? Another of my wife's makings One of my images of Gjøvik on Wikipedia . Before me the town of Gjøvik was really badly introduced on Wikipedia, the article of Gjøvik was a shame compared to the ones of her siblings around Lake Mjøsa, the towns of Hamar and Lillehammer. I'm sure my gallery of Gjøvik and the improvements made from my gallery has meant a lot for marketing and goodwill of the town. So that we have to leave is a shame! Two times before we were forced to leave our home here in Gjøvik, because of cigarette smoke . This time we have to leave because of anti-biophilia   and   a missing commons . It's t...

Excerpt from Charles Siegel's book  Unplanning , chapter 7 . I strongly recommend to visit Siegel's Preservation Institute  for reading free e-books and other resources. Published at P2P-Foundation on August 31, 2014. Noise is another telling example of the failure of growth. All through the nineteenth and twentieth century, the middle class tried to move to quieter neighborhoods by moving to lower density suburbs. Until World War I, they succeeded: from the walking city to the streetcar suburb, middle-class neighborhoods did become pleasanter and quieter. But during the twentieth century, so many new sources of noise appeared that modern suburbia is noisier than the much denser streetcar suburbs were one hundred years ago. It should be obvious by now that the only way to reduce noise is by limiting its sources! For example, cities and suburbs could cut their noise levels significantly by banning gasoline-powered gardening equipment. Electric edgers and electr...

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