Themed post 2

-Urbanism: Peter Calthorpe
-Watch the Ted Talk
-Write about his view of urbanism
-Do you agree or disagree with his view

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Peter Calthorpe, an urban desginer, architect, planner began a new approach  to urban revitalization, suburban growth, and regional planning, combining his experience in each discipline.
In this video he talks about the complexity of the sitution we find ourselves in today's world. At the same time we are solving the climate changes, we are going to build cities for three billion people. That is doubling the urban environment. He said in the video that if we don't get this right, he is not sure we all the climates solutions in the world will save mankind, because so much depends on how we shape our cities. That is not just the environmental impacts, but our social well-being, our economy vitality, our sense of community and connectedness.
He mention sprawl as the villain of this story, but as low-density development.  Sprawl can happen anywhere, however, its attribute is to isolote people, to segregrate them into economic enclaves and land-use enclaves. Sprawl separates people from nature, does not allow interaction, that makes cities great places and that make society thrive.
From here he goes into Los Angeles, California and a Chinese model as examples for the antidote to sprawl. In thes  models he mixed different development prototypes which will reduce the impact of carbon monoxeide emissions but making these cities more walkable, and with all the benefits to a neighborhood's life.  These benefits change the people's habits.