I am a professional Urban Planner and Designer. I treat this as my thought laboratory exploring how bionomics relate to self-organizing, emergent urbanism.
As a professional urban designer and partner of the Planning and Design Firm Space Between Design Studio, I am a trained urbanist who specializes in creating walkable urban developments and analyzing existing places to find the barriers preventing livable, walkable urbanism. I can be reached at patrick [at] spacebtw.com
End result of a wicked cycle of loaning with fake money, building with fake money, buying with fake money and the end result is a surplus of houses that nobody can sell.
"The American love affair with the car...it's an awful lot like Stockholm Syndrome." ~ Me. In the Sixties the philosopher Ivan Illich showed that the amount of energy invested into cars and road infrastructure would be sufficient to cover the distance by foot - and in a considerably more beautiful and peaceful environment.