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Where does style meet philosophy?

Is there a place where our natural style lives happily alongside the bullish modern trappings?
Is there a place where personal taste and current convenience align with the needs of the natural world around us to produce the best possible outcome for all? Yes!

where the person hits the pavement.
As of May 2007, and for the first time in history, more people worldwide live in cities than outside of them. This is in stark contrast to the U.S. experience where that tipping point was reached almost a century ago. The United States were urbanized so early that the requirements of a livable city environment is only now becoming a topic of conversation. Technology and other modern trappings spearheaded the urbanization process, screaming over every other issue that was more subtle in its implications, and with unrealized (long-term) outcomes.

The dynamics of a changing economic and cultural landscape in urban areas globally have introduced new resources. More people have plumbing, paved roads, cinder block homes and cable tv. But that also means a culture's surrender of beneficial materials and practices that were designed in context. A person 'on the ground' will best understand landscape, but is often unfortunately overrun by the bullishness of modernity.

 Modern inventions, like asphalt are a relatively new introduction into our surroundings, bringing with it new solutions and obstacles into a context understood quite differently in our culture 100 years before. For example, asphalt is a great solution for easing transportation but presents quite an obstacle to the natural world.

Cities can be places where the beauty of things in nature, and in our human nature, accomplish a harmony by understanding the new relationships with our environment.

Find more information on the original report discussing the rural/urban relationship.
 
 
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