Built To Last

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"Built to Last" won first place in The Congress for the New Urbanism CNU 17 video contest.
This short film explores the connection between New Urbanism and environmental issues.
Created by independent filmmaker John Paget (www.pagetfilms.com) with First+Main Media (Drew Ward, Chris Elisara and John Paget). www.firstandmain.tv

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[Gormanmod]

What's left of the county? Try to build a park in Turkey and you have a massive uprising. Spy on the entire world in America? meh. This country died in spirit decades ago. Now it's just hubs of power that you can play with.

[TouringUSA1]

Have fun with your server hub. I haven't changed my objection to "sustainable development" and Agenda 21. It's not for me, my neighborhood nor my country.

[Gormanmod]

I'm not a trader. I just know many facts. One fact is, that as long as global trade exists. you now have to live in the cities that have these server hubs in order to trade. If you are not in the city, you cannot trade.

[TouringUSA1]

Glad to hear you're a trader. Not many people are.

[Gormanmod]

Actually the internet has increased city population, and universal communication doesn't exist yet.

Just to give you one example, thanks to the internet, all trade in the stocks is at light speed, by computers. Ergo, if you live outside the city, you're actually at a disadvantage to trade by milliseconds. So people move to the city so they can all trade on the same speed level. The internet, thus, is forcing people to move to the city to compete.

Sorry dude, you're wrong.

[TouringUSA1]

The global event has already happened: The internet and universal communication. No need to live in congested cities any more. A little elbow room so we can be self sustaining without having to be crammed into a high-rise.

[Gormanmod]

Sure, the literally 3 billion + people who love in cities will just suddenly want to live in the countryside. And what, pray-tale, will that global event be to cause such a ridiculous movement?

[TouringUSA1]

Socialist's dreams. Soon there will be no need for cities.

[Gormanmod]

Actually we don't have to force you to. Soon it will be the only place you can work and live. You can live out in suburbia if you want, but all you're going to have is abandoned houses. Only reasons to live outside of a city is if you want to be a farmer or a herder. And farms are about to go to the city too with vertical farms. Soon later, they'll grow meat in labs. So really, there's no reason not to go to the city. And the trend confirms that.