Day 88, PM

Turning places not worth caring about into places worth caring about. Yes, please! James Howard Kunstle is spot on. Suburbs are turning into some of the most depressing places on earth. There is no sense of community. No common good. Nothing worth preserving.

Once again, Ray Oldenburg, author of The Good Great Place (my favorite book ever) said it best.

"In the absence of an informal public life, Americans are denied those means of relieving stress that serve other cultures so effectively…our urban environment is like an engine that runs hot because it was designed without a cooling system."