A Pattern Language:
Work Community
"If you spend eight hours of your day at work, and eight hours at home, there is no reason why your workplace should be any less than a community than your home. ...
Build to encourage the formation of work communities - each one a collection of smaller clusters of workplaces ... gathered around a common courtyard which contains shops and lunch counters." C. Alexander, A Pattern Language, (1977), Oxford Universities Press, page 233
Obviously what Alexander is trying to convey here is that your workplace should be as much of an enjoyable experience as your home is resulting in you 'living' as opposed to just being 'dead' at work.
Why not create a place where your work and home are close by, thus incredibly reducing the need for private transport to and from work, from suburbs into the city. What if everyone lived walking distance from work?? Similar to the presentation during the lecture where the building was designed to incorporate work and home. There'd be no need for private transport other than for leasure. Obviously this model would only work in a fairly dense city environment. I spose it could work at the other end of the spectrum to where a farmer lives on the land he works on.
What it boils down to:
Urban sprawl is the problem! The commute to/from work and home would have to be a major contributing factor to CO2 emissions from cars. Cities need to be dense and have a well designed public transport system. A city should be limited to a certain population and boundary, out side of this boundary should be green space and farm land, thus land isn't wasted creating roads just for people to communte to and from the city everyday.
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