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Just came back from Venice today, where we could breath the truth of "A Pattern Language" for five wonderful days. Both the most walkable and beautiful city on Earth. I'm sure there's a connection between walkability and beauty! - PermaLiv Foto: "The Burning of Sodom (formerly "The Destruction of Sodom")", av Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot. - Wikimedia . At the international Walk21 conference this week in Vancouver, British Columbia, an eminent authority on streets boiled the walkability of cities down to the number of street intersections per square mile. Venice has 1,725 intersections per square mile. “It’s very complex, it’s very messy, and people walk,” said Allan Jacobs, urban design consultant, former San Francisco planning director, and author of Great Streets. Brasilia, near the opposite end of the spectrum, “has 92 intersections, and you don’t walk there,” The Vancouver Sun reported Jacobs as saying. “Irvine, California is the c...

Henry Ford was a farmer's son and he wanted the car to be a tool for farmers. Surely, for the farmers the car was a blessing. The problem arose when the farm market was saturated, how to keep the assembly lines moving? Unfortunately, the solution was to move city people out into the farmland, away from their dirty and noisy cities, to make them dependent upon the car industry for every aspect of life. Published at the P2P-Foundation blog on September 17, 2016 . Gamla stan  in Stockholm is the closest you come to a  VillageTown  in Scandinavia. One way out of this quandary would be to substitute the word “activity” for “growth.” A society of human beings can choose different activities that would produce different effects than the techno-industrial model of behavior. They can organize ten-acre farms instead of cell phone game app companies. They can do physical labor instead of watching television. They can build compact walkable towns instead of suburban ...