Rather than bemoan the loss of the private a concept that never existed in the first place architects need to investigate the tectonic ramifications of the private home as a site of public exchange, says Sanders. As the home increasingly becomes a global way-station, architects will find themselves reconfiguring not only individual homes to accommodate new modes of living and working but also entire neighborhoods, as people seek alternative local Kunstler, the predicament of public space is that we have turned it into a universal automobile slum. Man-Made Landscape, is also concerned with how this duality relates to the landscape. For In the meantime, public space in America, and the civic life that has to dwell within it, becomes increasingly damaged, crippled, and impoverished. My own belief is that economic and political forces are underway in the world that will soon require us to live differently, whatever our theoretical orientation, Kunstler forewarns.
History is merciless.
We are a wicked people and we deserve to be punished. Liftin believes the web can pick up the baton of spontaneous urban encounter. The Internet has emerged as a system with potential for a kind of urban experience, Web urbanism. Web urbanism is the migration of traditional urban experience to the Web, says Liftin. Like cities, the Web originally was begun under public auspices, but soon became commercial.