Ja, Norge kunne ha anvendt oljeformuen til å bygge vakre gangbare byer over hele landet. Men som Kunstler uttrykker det: "...we blew it in order to enjoy life in a one-time demolition derby." Og Ronny Spaans har nå dokumentert denne tragedien i all sin gru. Hvilket grusomt endelikt for en nasjon!
Village Towns - The wall sets a permanent limit - No sprawl. Image: Richard Elmore |
Similarly for “infrastructure” spending touted by the forces of Trump as the coming panacea for economic malaise. I suspect most people assume this means a trillion-dollar stimulus spend on highways and their accessories. Well, that also assumes that we expect another fifty years of Happy Motoring and suburban living.
Ja, Norge kunne ha anvendt oljeformuen til å bygge vakre gangbare byer over hele landet. Men som Kunstler uttrykker det: "...we blew it in order to enjoy life in a one-time demolition derby." Og Ronny Spaans har nå dokumentert denne tragedien i all sin gru. Hvilket grusomt endelikt for en nasjon!Fuggeddabowdit. We’re in the twilight of motoring anyway you cut it, despite all the chatter about electric cars and “driverless” cars. We won’t have the electric capacity to switch over the Happy Motoring fleet from gasoline. The oil industry itself is already headed for collapse on its sinking energy-return-on-investment. And our problems with money and debt are so severe that the motoring paradigm is more prone to fail on the basis of car loan scarcity and unworthy borrows before the fueling issues even kick in. Every year, fewer Americans can afford to buy any kind of car — the way they’re used to buying them, on installment loans. The industry has gone the limit to help them — seven-year loans for used cars! — but they have no more room to maneuver. The car financing system is broken.
Bear in mind the original suburbanization of America (including Norway) back in the 20th century — along with its accessory automobiles — must be regarded as the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world.
So, a rebuild of all this stuff would represent more and possibly even greater malinvestment.
We could have applied our post-WW2 treasure to building beautiful walkable towns and cities with some capacity for adaptive re-use, but we blew it in order to enjoy life in a one-time demolition derby. Life is tragic. Societies make poor choices sometimes, and then there are consequences.
Vi er nå så forflatet som folk at dette er det beste vi klarer å komme opp med: https://www.nrk.no/…/vil-stoppa-3400-bustadar-fordi-dei-lig…
Både denne menneskeørkenen utenfor Bergen og en Village Town er beregnet for 10.000 mennesker. Hva ville du valgt?
Men, som Pål Steigan har det som slagord på sin blogg: "A winner is a dreamer who never gives up".
Sigmund Knag: Jeg foreslår 'kjøpstad' som oversettelse av 'market town'. Det fremgår at det er de middelaldeske kjøpsteder som er modellen eller inspirasjonen.Drøm dere vekk i disse bildene fra hva som tidligere ble kalt Village Towns - nå Market Towns: http://7g.nz/
Se alle bildene på fjesboka her eller hos Flickr her.
Dette kunne vært Norge! Slik kunne vi anvendt oljeformuen. Istedenfor har vi rasert våre byer, våre steder og vårt kulturlandskap med vertikal og horisontal "suburban sprawl", et bilbasert suburbant, eksurbant og subeksurbant helvete pepret med kjøpesentre. Norge som nasjonsprosjekt er en fiasko, vi druknet i konsum og er nå et land av modernistisk slum! Village Towns - Country towns are part of the rural economy. Image: Richard Elmore |
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