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本文发表于《大众科学》的前博客网络,反映了作者的观点,不一定反映《大众科学》的观点。


在经历了半个世纪残酷的城市更新、无 sidewalks 的尽头路和无法步行的城市扩张之后,世界各地的规划者们都转向了数十年来规划中被遗漏的东西:社区。无论是像完整街道这样的规划方法,还是像步行指数这样的评估方法,社区都已经认识到,人们希望像人一样与周围环境互动,而不是像寄居蟹一样,离开汽车的钢铁外壳就无法生存。

因此,智慧增长网络 (www.smartgrowth.org) 这个由致力于智慧增长的团体组成的全国性联盟,决定向二十世纪后半叶规划过程中被遗漏的人群——人民——寻求 идеи,这真是个好消息。也就是说,智慧增长网络正在众包民众的智慧,发起名为“关于我们社区未来的全国对话”的活动:征集五页纸的论文,内容是关于改进社区设计和规划的 идеи——任何 идеи

对人行道设计有想法吗?发过来。想出了一个新颖的自行车架设计,就像罗利做的那样?发过来。


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美国环保署可持续社区办公室的一位真人员工(在那里,要经历获得“先生,请允许坦率发言”的许可的疯狂过程真是太麻烦了!——拜托,政府!这是个好主意;不要因为吓跑你的员工而使之复杂化,本次征集论文的目的就是要激发对话!)告诉我,这项工作的全部意义在于“接触那些尚未参与对话的人们”。

我被告知,这是一个双向街道——这是为公共汽车、自行车和行人提供的双向街道,而不仅仅是汽车,请注意。 这不是为了分裂性高速公路或野蛮的政府建筑而开垦少数族裔社区;而是“作为一个民族,我们希望我们的社区看起来、感觉起来、运作起来如何?”

这是你的机会——每个人的机会——去获得决策者的关注。他们正在寻求我们的帮助。而且说真的,你可以得到他们的关注。该网络希望邀请最佳 идеи 的创造者——最具原创性?最佳呈现?最简单?最容易实施?——在2013 年 2 月在堪萨斯城举行的智慧增长新伙伴会议上展示他们的 идеи。

请注意——五页纸论文的截止日期是 6 月 30 日 (实际规则在此),但该网络如果说有什么特点,那就是具有二十一世纪的特色:如果您更喜欢制作视频或更迷幻的东西,有关如何制作的详细信息将于 7 月 9 日在“全国对话”页面上公布。

如果你和我一样,你经常发现自己想步行去一家餐厅,乌鸦飞半英里就能到,但火车轨道、8 车道公路以及缺乏人行道或交通选择让你无法到达;也许你有一个想法,你的市中心如何能够让老龄人口安全地过马路;也许你已经想出了如何让人们缴税来改善他们的社区;或者也许你只是希望你的孩子能够安全地步行上学或骑自行车。无论如何,这是你的机会。不要错过。

Scott Huler was born in 1959 in Cleveland and raised in that city's eastern suburbs. He graduated from Washington University in 1981; he was made a member of Phi Beta Kappa because of the breadth of his studies, and that breadth has been a signature of his writing work. He has written on everything from the death penalty to bikini waxing, from NASCAR racing to the stealth bomber, for such newspapers as the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Los Angeles Times and such magazines as ESPN, Backpacker, and Fortune. His award-winning radio work has been heard on "All Things Considered" and "Day to Day" on National Public Radio and on "Marketplace" and "Splendid Table" on American Public Media. He has been a staff writer for the Philadelphia Daily News and the Raleigh News & Observer and a staff reporter and producer for Nashville Public Radio. He was the founding and managing editor of the Nashville City Paper. He has taught at such colleges as Berry College and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

His books include Defining the Wind, about the Beaufort Scale of wind force, and No-Man's Lands, about retracing the journey of Odysseus.

His most recent book, On the Grid, was his sixth. His work has been included in such compilations as Appalachian Adventure and in such anthologies as Literary Trails of the North Carolina Piedmont, The Appalachian Trail Reader and Speed: Stories of Survival from Behind the Wheel.

For 2014-2015 Scott is a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, which is funding his work on the Lawson Trek, an effort to retrace the journey of explorer John Lawson through the Carolinas in 1700-1701.

He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with his wife, the writer June Spence, and their two sons.

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