careful what you wish for

As I dictate the original words of this post into my digital recorder (for which I will edit later) I am sitting in traffic headed into Pittsburgh for a daylong series of continuing education classes hosted by AIA Pittsburgh. I am passing the time.

nowhere to park

“I can’t find a parking space.”

public transportation

would you use it if you had it?

This is going to become a more important question as cities grow in population and suburbs get farther away from the city center.

paved paradise

“…As the critic Lewis Mumford wrote half a century ago, ““The right to have access to every building in the city by private motorcar in an age when everyone possesses such a vehicle is the right to destroy the city.””

can I get a house with that garage?

The garage, it is a house all its own for the symbol of American freedom, the automobile.