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Abolishing the off-street parking requirement is one of the three cornerstones of Shoup’s theory, because it would allow the market to determine how much parking is needed. He notes that “removing off-street parking requirements will not eliminate off-street parking, but will instead stimulate an active commercial market for it.”37 This would bring
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Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
how to create grass-free lawns and suggests red flowered daisies (Bellis), white flowered buttercups (Ranunculus) and bronze-leaved bugle (Ajuga) as examples of plants that would work in the climate of Western Europe.18
Lucy Jones • Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need the Wild
Arthur Magazine
Parks are dead and artificial. Farms, when treated as private property, rob the people of their natural biological heritage-the countryside from which they came.
Christopher Alexander • A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
The implementation of this pattern requires new policies of three different kinds. With respect to the farmland, there must be policies encouraging the reconstruction of small farms, farms that fit the one-mile bands of country land. Second, there must he policies which contain the cities’ tendency to scatter in every direction. And third, the coun
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