The street, which is the public realm of America, is now a barrier to community life. Cars moving through neighborhoods are only borrowing the public space of the dwellings facing the street. A street is a spatial entity and not the residue between buildings. The role of the street is social as well as utilitarian. The English Department of Transport has concluded that more roads create more traffic.
Transit gives people the right to find jobs throughout the region.
Suburban Codes attempt to impose order, Neotraditional Codes avoid disorder. Affordable housing was inadvertently eliminated by suburban codes. The rigid, isolated object is of no use whatsoever. It must be inserted into the context of living social relations. Only the abstraction of the specific case enables us, in fact, to demonstrate how the disparate elements that make up a large city can be placed, in an orderly way, in relationship to the whole.