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Dating, Times Have Changed: The Automobile and Social Values

The pedestrian and social enemy, the the streets with life that we can easily
automobile: Since the invention of the imagine, and is demonstrated in most
automobile, designers and builders had to historic cities around the world. In the
make space for parking. Well, this was a historic town of Ybor City in Tampa, an
challenge at best as each automobile old Cuban cigar manufacturing city, the
requires around one hundred square feet. workers had little houses called
A person requires approximately four "casitas" which exhibited high ceilings,
square feet of space. Vehicular lanes had raised floor for air convection, and a
to be accommodated, restricting space for quaint and approachable front porch.
pedestrians, and adding vehicular and Every Saturday, the family would walk to
pedestrian conflict. Moreover, the the center of town to meet the neighbors,
vehicle is now regarded as the most rub shoulders with others, and do the
important component of our transportation weekly shopping. Vehicles were not
infrastructure with regard to safety and necessary, neither were large houses. The
efficiency. What does this do to our outside public spaces served as an
social space? After the engineers design extension of the interior space of their
a street, and the builders accommodate homes. This experience is still shared in
the parking at the front of the many towns in Europe.How are we easily
buildings, the once social space turns able to meet new people during these
into dead, vehicular only, depressing modern times of suburbs, proliferation of
places. Imagine walking next to the the automobile, and a new understanding
parking lot of a shopping mall, next to a of an internal world. Computers and cell
six lane arterial highway. Not much phones have been the crutch for the
chance that you will find another absence of social places. It would be
pedestrian with which to rub shoulders. nice to revive the values we once had, on
Conversely, a historic place such as the safe pedestrian filled streets and
Boston, is packed with life, and very plazas.Patrick Hood-Daniel is an Urban
little suburbs. In suburbia, the place to Designer/Architect that pays special
find your next date, the Circle K attention to our social atmosphere in
convenience store.Prior to the relation to our physical environment. He
proliferation of the automobile, people is also the developer of where members
met on the streets. Pedestrians filled can find dates in a totally unique way.




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