A suburb eating monster? We’ll take two
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
The Andrew Maynard Architects have proposed a solution to our abandoned suburbs. What’s that you say? They aren’t abandoned yet?
Did you see the price of gas today?
Do you think that’s going to get any better?
How long will it be till they are abandoned? Really? Will anyone want to drive to work soon? We might as well get started on the solution, I’d say.
These Australian architects have defined a suburb as “A place cars go to sleep.” When we can’t afford to let our cars wander off to a comfortable bedroom community anymore, we’ll all have to live close together once again. Which will mean abandoning our suburbs for cities.
From our huge new cities, we’ll want something more attractive to look out upon than miles and miles of one-story houses and driveways. The CV08 is our solution!
The robots would consume suburban property, reprocess it into biodegradable components and terraform the land behind it into rolling meadows or other desired eco-systems. Simple!
Philadelphia would like two; whenever the prototypes are ready. We’ve got a place ready for a trial run. It was once known as “Lower Merion.”
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