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本文發表於《大眾科學》的前部落格網路,反映了作者的觀點,不一定反映《大眾科學》的觀點。


在經歷了半個世紀殘酷的城市更新、無 sidewalks 的盡頭路和無法步行的城市擴張之後,世界各地的規劃者們都轉向了數十年來規劃中被遺漏的東西:社群。無論是像完整街道這樣的規劃方法,還是像步行指數這樣的評估方法,社群都已經認識到,人們希望像人一樣與周圍環境互動,而不是像寄居蟹一樣,離開汽車的鋼鐵外殼就無法生存。

因此,智慧增長網路 (www.smartgrowth.org) 這個由致力於智慧增長的團體組成的全國性聯盟,決定向二十世紀後半葉規劃過程中被遺漏的人群——人民——尋求 идеи,這真是個好訊息。也就是說,智慧增長網路正在眾包民眾的智慧,發起名為“關於我們社群未來的全國對話”的活動:徵集五頁紙的論文,內容是關於改進社群設計和規劃的 идеи——任何 идеи

對人行道設計有想法嗎?發過來。想出了一個新穎的腳踏車架設計,就像羅利做的那樣?發過來。


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美國環保署可持續社群辦公室的一位真人員工(在那裡,要經歷獲得“先生,請允許坦率發言”的許可的瘋狂過程真是太麻煩了!——拜託,政府!這是個好主意;不要因為嚇跑你的員工而使之複雜化,本次徵集論文的目的就是要激發對話!)告訴我,這項工作的全部意義在於“接觸那些尚未參與對話的人們”。

我被告知,這是一個雙向街道——這是為公共汽車、腳踏車和行人提供的雙向街道,而不僅僅是汽車,請注意。 這不是為了分裂性高速公路或野蠻的政府建築而開墾少數族裔社群;而是“作為一個民族,我們希望我們的社群看起來、感覺起來、運作起來如何?”

這是你的機會——每個人的機會——去獲得決策者的關注。他們正在尋求我們的幫助。而且說真的,你可以得到他們的關注。該網路希望邀請最佳 идеи 的創造者——最具原創性?最佳呈現?最簡單?最容易實施?——在2013 年 2 月在堪薩斯城舉行的智慧增長新夥伴會議上展示他們的 идеи。

請注意——五頁紙論文的截止日期是 6 月 30 日 (實際規則在此),但該網路如果說有什麼特點,那就是具有二十一世紀的特色:如果您更喜歡製作影片或更迷幻的東西,有關如何製作的詳細資訊將於 7 月 9 日在“全國對話”頁面上公佈。

如果你和我一樣,你經常發現自己想步行去一家餐廳,烏鴉飛半英里就能到,但火車軌道、8 車道公路以及缺乏人行道或交通選擇讓你無法到達;也許你有一個想法,你的市中心如何能夠讓老齡人口安全地過馬路;也許你已經想出瞭如何讓人們繳稅來改善他們的社群;或者也許你只是希望你的孩子能夠安全地步行上學或騎腳踏車。無論如何,這是你的機會。不要錯過。

Scott Huler was born in 1959 in Cleveland and raised in that city's eastern suburbs. He graduated from Washington University in 1981; he was made a member of Phi Beta Kappa because of the breadth of his studies, and that breadth has been a signature of his writing work. He has written on everything from the death penalty to bikini waxing, from NASCAR racing to the stealth bomber, for such newspapers as the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Los Angeles Times and such magazines as ESPN, Backpacker, and Fortune. His award-winning radio work has been heard on "All Things Considered" and "Day to Day" on National Public Radio and on "Marketplace" and "Splendid Table" on American Public Media. He has been a staff writer for the Philadelphia Daily News and the Raleigh News & Observer and a staff reporter and producer for Nashville Public Radio. He was the founding and managing editor of the Nashville City Paper. He has taught at such colleges as Berry College and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

His books include Defining the Wind, about the Beaufort Scale of wind force, and No-Man's Lands, about retracing the journey of Odysseus.

His most recent book, On the Grid, was his sixth. His work has been included in such compilations as Appalachian Adventure and in such anthologies as Literary Trails of the North Carolina Piedmont, The Appalachian Trail Reader and Speed: Stories of Survival from Behind the Wheel.

For 2014-2015 Scott is a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, which is funding his work on the Lawson Trek, an effort to retrace the journey of explorer John Lawson through the Carolinas in 1700-1701.

He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with his wife, the writer June Spence, and their two sons.

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