Toast Easily

tomorrowville:

Look at this. Who can say it isn’t beautiful? Sky, bricks. Who do you think lives there? Four-car garage. Hope, fear, excitement, satisfaction.

I’m giving a presentation tomorrow night on livable neighborhood design (for Merlin - think “Happy Kunstler” and you’ll have an idea of my thing).

For an opener, I’m using a clip from a David Byrne movie. I love making this stuff kinda goofy and entertaining - I find that introducing a fairly conservative city to concepts like mixed-use development, walkable urbanism, and bike-friendly streets policies goes smoother when you’re obviously having fun with it. And oh, I have fun with it.

Because I’m a city planning nerd. That’s one of the nerdier nerds you can be, I think.

Tucking this one away for a rainy day.