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  • From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Making city-imcompatible cars compatible
  • Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2004 08:24:41 -0700


The comparison of design and architecture with language may be useful, but is metaphorical, not literal. And language only begins with grammar. It is one thing to speak or write correctly, another to do so with meaning and feeling. The Media Lab's car will need some rhetoric, some prosody, perhaps even some poetry to become more than an academic exercise.

Smaller, smarter, non-polluting cars are a big step forward. Apparently, even MIT thinking is stuck in the old transportation corridors. The ultimate city people-mover system will use no roads, no parking spaces, no multi-story garages, all of which space has better uses.






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