Human Scale

Living in a big American city for the first time has gotten me to think about the way so many American cities are designed. I say American because I have, for relatively short periods of time (6weeks to several months) lived in other big cities- and the contrasts are impressively massive.

Like no where else on Earth, many of our cities are designed behind and around the use of a car.Life is very difficult, in fact, if you don't have a car.

I do not think this is how things should be. When people live so far away from where they work, it breaks down communities. People don't get to know their neighbors, because they aren't really part of a neighborhood. I think communities should be designed so that people can live, work, play, and go grocery shopping within that neighborhood, and that there should be options (bike lanes, at the very least) for how people transport themselves.