Comments on: Robert Neuwirth - “The 21ist Century Medieval City” http://blog.longnow.org/2005/06/13/robert-neuwirth-the-21ist-century-medieval-city/ The Official Weblog of The Long Now Foundation and Friends Tue, 14 Oct 2008 05:48:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: Jan Benda http://blog.longnow.org/2005/06/13/robert-neuwirth-the-21ist-century-medieval-city/#comment-4625 Jan Benda Wed, 04 Jun 2008 08:53:55 +0000 http://blog.longnow.org/2005/06/13/robert-neuwirth-the-21ist-century-medieval-city/#comment-4625 Its quite interesting. As an architect interesting in the subject of urbanism I find in shadow cities a potential inspiration for our world. One thing strike me, people in slums dont have any debt. They can live only from they have. rest of us live from the future. Borrowing money, resources, food, air, soil from future generations. And after that scientists are talking about sustainebility. But what to sustain? I believe that the fundamental issue here is to live only from we have now. We can use only blanket to cover ouself as big as we can pay for. Even though people are not equal, many of us are using for our life much more than we actualy need. Its a ilusion that created by idea of modernity that lead us to the presenrt crises. I would like to look more closely into the slums economies and organisational structures and learnd from it. Is there any chance to get more insides? Its quite interesting. As an architect interesting in the subject of urbanism I find in shadow cities a potential inspiration for our world. One thing strike me, people in slums dont have any debt. They can live only from they have. rest of us live from the future. Borrowing money, resources, food, air, soil from future generations. And after that scientists are talking about sustainebility. But what to sustain?
I believe that the fundamental issue here is to live only from we have now. We can use only blanket to cover ouself as big as we can pay for. Even though people are not equal, many of us are using for our life much more than we actualy need. Its a ilusion that created by idea of modernity that lead us to the presenrt crises.
I would like to look more closely into the slums economies and organisational structures and learnd from it. Is there any chance to get more insides?

]]> By: Cobb http://blog.longnow.org/2005/06/13/robert-neuwirth-the-21ist-century-medieval-city/#comment-4592 Cobb Wed, 28 May 2008 22:44:33 +0000 http://blog.longnow.org/2005/06/13/robert-neuwirth-the-21ist-century-medieval-city/#comment-4592 <strong>Thinking About Squatters...</strong> Robert Neuwirth has been lecturing me and although I haven't finished hearing him out, I have already started thinking about a very interesting project. That project would be jumpstarting the lowest of the low income housing projects. In other words,... Thinking About Squatters…

Robert Neuwirth has been lecturing me and although I haven’t finished hearing him out, I have already started thinking about a very interesting project. That project would be jumpstarting the lowest of the low income housing projects. In other words,…

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