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oh come on.. 'always barbarians, and they always prevail'? Enough with the dire extremes, already.
The article detailed some cities creating standards for businesses and an approach to making living intown more balanced, but how did that evolve into 'Gated' cities? New Orleans has some sad political shenanigans being played upon it to exclude a vast portion of its poorer, former residents, but how are you tying that in with this article, except to say that NOLA intrinsically has some of the qualities of a Slow-city that the article references.. It seems to me that those qualities are what make New Orleans MORE accessible to a broad range of people, not less.
The forces that would be grabbing former residents' properties and rebuilding those parishes into overpriced developments or exclusive neighborhoods cannot possibly be confused with those in Europe trying to create Slow Cities.
"Forget the power of Positive Thinking. It just doesn't work, and it never will.." Chad's Fifth Axiom- Self Help for the PostModernNihilist
Bob
The barbarians often have the most energy and the best ideas. I wasn't trying to project DOOM, and I'm definitely in favor of slowness -- but you can't sell that to my kids.
The fact that it isn't currently being sold to your kids is a problem of marketing. Major corporations don't have the profit-motive to slow consumption or the pace of life, but marketing is a concept that can also be applied by those not driven solely by profit motive. If elegant simplicity and minimalist consumption become "cool," you never know what people will go for:
Magazine Simplicity
Vernacular Zen
“Conspicuous Simplicity”. You got my vote.
When those two roads diverged in the woods, boy did we take the wrong one. And yup, that's made all the difference.
Long live the bookstore, and light to read by.