Tutorial: People and Lifestyles

After presenting our ideas regarding Urban Sprawl and ways to combat and improve this issue, it became evident that if we are to make Urban Sprawl a positive thing through the implementation of cultural and community-based Nodes, then we first need to change the way people perceive, feel and talk about Urban Sprawl. The first and main issue was the term itself. In today's society the prevalent Urban Sprawl is a negative thing because there is insufficient infrastructure, connectivity and cultural and community identity. If however we were to change this through wholistic design interventions (project 2?) and would  use the current Urban Sprawl framework to provide a positive outcome, then the term itself would have positive connotations and could remain in use. However, a bad reputation is always a difficult thing to shake off so therefore a whole new term would be needed to satisfy the public that it really is a new, shiny positive urban situation. The following posts will take you through the process of this renaming, and the outcome will hopefully catch on through repetitive use and the 'goods to back it up' in time.

Urban-http://www.mattsimner.com/2009/04/27/urban-oasis-t-shirt/