Sustainable communities ctd.

[purpletigron]

[Poll #717958]

Comments

[drplokta]

Whi is "community" implicitly defined in terms of geography in these questions? My community does not consist of the people who happen to live near me.

Re: A bunch of people who happen to live in adjacent buildings

[frandowdsofa.livejournal.com]

I'm confused about the SIZE of community as well - my street, my "neighbourhood", my suburb ...

I would tend to think in terms of the streets around my park, or the city. In fact, I think I probably identify more closely with the city. Which is massive, and the answers would be completely different. But I'm more aware of city-wide resources, initiatives, news, community groups etc. than I am of anything going on micro-locally. I suspect that this is because I do not spend many daylight hours, any social time, or work time, with anyone in my neighbourhood - but I do spend time with people who are actively planning the cityscape.

If we had dogs again, it might be different, we saw more local notices, talked to people etc. when we were using the Park - we were founder members of the Park User Group, and I don't even know if it exists any more.

[fivemack.livejournal.com]

I think there is a sense in which, even if the people you'd rather hang out with and whose views you want to influence tend to live distributed across the five continents or the Nine Worlds, you have to care in some way about the physical location you actually happen to live in.

Though the structure for doing that hasn't particularly developed in a world of casual mobility; I'd feel very odd, almost as if I were coming across as threatening, to knock on the doors of my neighbours and introduce myself.

[frandowdsofa.livejournal.com]

The last question was particularly inane. If it's part of the infrastructure, you would actually spend LESS time on having to BE sustainable, because it would underpin everything you did. If I had glass and plastic recycling at my door, like the paper and garden waste, I wouldn't have to spend time and space storing it, driving it to the supermarket, and John putting it in the relevant bins. It could just go straight into a bin outside instead of a box under the kitchen table. If there was effective and affordable public transport, it wouldn't take me any longer to get to work, might even be faster, because that's a definition of effective.

(By the way, I'm trying to type this in light grey at what seems to be about 4 point type, can you have a look at your page design pretty please?)

[sammywol.livejournal.com]

The last question won't tell you much unless people define 'all possible opportunities' - I chose to take it at its very broadest - meaning no other responsibilities but I wasn't quite sure what you wanted the parameters to be.