Thursday, January 3, 2013
Currency Diversification
By diversifying one's portfolio we insure resilience, which in turn provides security, stresslessness, and relaxation. Relaxation leads to freedom, breath, and choice. Choice enables us to escape imprisonment and become co-creators within our surroundings.
There are many hiking, biking, and horse trails on the Emerald Coast
region of Northwest Florida, however no north-south passage from the
woods to the beach exists. This acts as a direct result of poor city and
regional planning. The attractive and heavily desired coastline had
been primitive in its early years. Roads that run parallel to the coastline prevent such a trail from existing, therefore eliminating the experience that could be enjoyed and highly valued. These roads pave the way for concrete jungles, sprawl, desertification, poverty, crime, war, and ultimately death.
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Why do the parallel coastal roads and therefore lack of perpendicular roads end up with concrete jungles, sprawl, etc?
ReplyDeleteI-10 seems to be a perpendicular pathway straight into the Atlantic or should I say Jax.
What would the alternative look like that didn't end up in those senarios?
Roads that run closely parallel to the shoreline create sprawl due to the high desirability of the coastal property. Isolated towns, neighborhoods, and houses turn into connected metropolitan areas because surrounding land is not put into trusts or conservancies as a result of the infrastructural design and short term profitability. Take Grayton Beach as an example, 30A, and the intentional community of Seaside that is now surrounded by new construction.
ReplyDeleteUnlike the jagged coast of California, Florida does not have the geographical comparative advantage that keeps construction limited because of rocky terrain, large cliffs, and valleys. The flat terrain of Florida does not restrict development in the coastal areas.
An alternative would be to eliminate the closest parallel roads and use the roads that run perpendicular to the coast as coastal access points. Putting land into conservation onshore as well as surrounding towns would stop sprawl and force responsible growth in other directions. Rather than the grid-like design that we live in now, we would have curvier roads traveling north-south and east-west simultaneously at a diversified distance to the coast.
Federal interstates would succumb to state ownership and could be transformed into rail as the space has already been cleared for that type of construction. Take the monorail system in Disney World as an example.
http://reason.com/archives/2013/02/09/competing-currencies
ReplyDeleteGood article to add to your post.