“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “The New Urbanism” Bumper sticker

“The New Urbanism” Bumper sticker

“The New Urbanism is entitlement for planners.” If you want to gather money and power – enable those richer and more powerful than you. That’s the main ingredient for success in today’s stratified bureaucracy. The New Urbanism and Form Based Codes are elitist mapmaking of a new territory — all that we had left of us.

Our communities; always growing and changing to meet the needs of those who lived in them — were “inefficient” – or more accurately; did not conform. Form Based Codes give planners the chance to create building block neighborhoods; and officials the power to control everything within them.

It’s a ground up paradigm of the new society: People are encouraged to make comments – and officials do whatever they please.

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “Underserved” Bumper sticker

“Underserved” Bumper sticker

2022 – Using the word “underserved” can be a trademark infringement. Everybody’s in the race to merchandize righteousness — and what better tool for personal gain — it’s the “virtual reality” that obscures a conflicting reality: wisdom.