Transit Oriented Development

Popularity of progressive etymologically declares the phrase New Urbanism as freestyle life, yet, it’s a euphemism for confined social derogation to the not so progressive populous.   Nonetheless, the importance of sustainable urban growth surpasses political and religious agendas of ideology.  The pretzel based logic of progressivism has twisted itself into a confinement of politically bias morals wanting value.  The objective to sustainable urban growth requires so much more than requirements to confined living space.

In the modern world; if a product can be consumed more easily from a store, nature is too slow.  So goes life in the fast pace of our car culture, in too big of a hurry to watch grass grows.  For urban growth; any residential dwelling deprived of a sky view and an eatable garden, strips elements of harmony from one’s quality of life.

Value judgments are a necessity to personal increase but, are made by an individual’s choice.  A minor value judgment is whether a resident will choose to grow one’s own food or go to the store or restaurant.  Striped of an option to grow one’s own garden foods adds to an unsustainable life environment.

Growing a portion of an individual’s food impacts an area’s economy.  When a garden can produce harvests that are marketable to neighbors the economic effect is greater.  When small gardens are abundant, the result can be measurably accounted for economically by a healthier community.

The challenge to New Urbanism is the tentacles of trends.  When planners and designers meet the repetitiveness of bureaucracy; creativity is stifled and efficiency vanishes.  Government agencies mandating design opinions based on popular trends or adhering to the terminology of a particular political viewpoint produce failed policy.  Ideas that began with rooftop garden innovation for the purpose of sustainability have expanded to the modern greening popularity.  Any policy which lacks the importance of mineral nutrition is given over to mineral deprived hydroponics, herbicides, and genetically modified organisms that have the nutritional value of waxed faux food.

Government has a pattern of foisting failed policies.  The task of bureaucratic procedure is to ensure its existence and is the nemesis to innovation and independent thought.  Staff policy is set by the opinion of properly trained and conditioned management to enhance department budgeting.  The importance of sustainable urban growth has to be cognizant of these government flaws.   It must be recognized that the living space restrictions in Government legislation is vulnerable to decisions made by the popularity of terminology from a correct political viewpoint lacking a coherent root understanding of what sustainable urban growth entails.  The inanity of this is that politics is misplaced for value and lacks personal increase to citizens.

Failed government policies that force groups of people into the confinement of high density residential projects cause disastrous negative social reaction.  Basic laws of physics reveal an explosion is more violent when wrapped in a tight container.

The foundation of urban growth, that is; the most important and fundamental core of all sustainable urban growth is its transportation.  In the popularity of nearly all New Urbanism conversation is its lack of recognition to what is at the core of urban growth: sustainable transportation.  There is much excitement and fanfare for electric cars and even automated cars.  A freeway full of electric or automated-vehicle traffic is still subjected to overload when the number of vehicles exceeds its designed capacity.  In other words; the electric and automated cars are still in the classification of unsustainable transportation with their automobile centric land-use road design.

New Urbanism practice which expounds on transit oriented development generally acknowledges the unsustainable automobile centric designs.  The exercise of transit oriented development with street car implementation was a practical approach to urban growth in the 19^th century.  Today’s social temperature is in desperate need of new and appropriate transit options, however, street cars were designed as a mode of transportation in the 1800s.  Today’s societal needs require more diversified transit system load and delivery options.

This again says New Technology Transit with Transit Oriented Development is the only way to attain sustainable urban growth.  The point of this post is pointing out that eatable gardens must be implemented in the residential component of development design.