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This is how life could go when the paradigms of environmental and social sustainability will put their roots in our institutions and techniques of design and organization of a city, or perhaps only Rome and its surroundings.
guess you chose this city to live because you are an avid farmer and a tireless advocate of smart economy .
Agriculture and urban gardens
Each family meets most of its food needs through a private garden or pool. If you have the morning off from work took the opportunity to pick something up, to try something else. Take a stroll among the gardens ot'incammini along the river to do some 'of bird watching . All fields that fetched the old city had left empty or abandoned have been assigned to groups, cooperatives or community and are cultivated. Flowers are dozens and dozens of small companies producing and selling food, inviting schools, care for and preserve the land from illegal dumps and speculation. In Rome it is grown a lot, but I think you should know that it is impossible to grow "too much". Everyone does what it can for their own needs and soil preservation is guaranteed by the inability to use the large equipment that would allow intensive crops and a consequent loss of biodiversity. Green closer to homes is intensively cultivated, as you leave the village the crops are less frequent and man can only move along paths crossing the large patches of land in evolution. Many areas have been abandoned and in fact was to repossess the nature, biodegradation, dissolution, removing all traces of past urban-rural war.
Mobility
In Rome Go on foot or by bicycle. There are miles of trails, paths, shortcuts and you can always create new ones. Walking through the area on foot, hierarchization the territory, over time, you will see the blooming of hundreds of small businesses that live by the transit of people: small stalls, shops, restaurants, bars. All of them will arise in the interstices and in those huge pavements, in parks and useless by the roadside. You'll find your new stamina and be aware of the distance you can go with your new media (3-4 km per hour on foot, 20-25km in an hour by bike) or, for example, trends that are changing. The clothing will be different, the idea of cleaning, it might be completely new and revised.
The first possibility mentioned creating what many like to call: grassroots democracy, which would add the adjective "isotropic." A network of local organization and participation aimed at achieving the objectives that a community undertakes to reach. Obviously this is made possible by an urban design that guarantees everyone the right to access land and the opportunity to build their own happiness directly and indirectly from the community. A land reform, perhaps, the pulverization of larger properties, start measuring the land with the steps and not with maps and rulers.
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