“The idea that is emerging from many sources in different forms is to retool America – its cities, its industry, its infrastructure and its landscape – to flourish in the post-oil economy of the mid-21st century. The post-oil economy will be as profound for the 21st century as the railroad was for the 19th, or the automobile was for the 20th, and it will be carried with a force of inevitability greater than either.”
So wrote Dan Solomon, co-founder of the Congress for the New Urbanism in the San Francisco Chronicle on Thursday (as brought to my attention by Filmanowicz’s twittering/blog).
“Now American housing faces new challenges. Most Americans cannot afford housing in the great urban centers that are served by public transportation and should be the locus of economic activity. There are no policy tools to address the growing disparity between the costs of producing housing, particularly housing that does not depend upon automobiles, and what middle class people can afford.”
Read his piece in the SFChronicle.
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