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Sometimes I think of World War II

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as a kind of global cultural stroke

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where we, you know,

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the world was so traumatized by the event

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that it lost all of its capacity

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for sophisticated language and articulation.

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I look around

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and I look at things prior to World War II,

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and there's a level of sophistication

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in the everyday vernacular world.

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Not in high art,

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not in high culture,

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not downtown urban museums

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but just the everyday craftsmanship of a house.

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And the scale and the fabric of a community

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was so much more mature,

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really than what we did since.

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We became obsessed with specialization

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and mechanization.

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So we mass produced housing,

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we standardized it.

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We mass produced office buildings

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and we standardized them.

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We standardized it for the automobile.

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I think that there's a really deep unmet need

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for community

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and communities of place,

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not communities of special interest.

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We live,

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shop

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and work within a context of place.

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And we are all influenced by its design.

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Who decides how our neighborhoods,

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suburbs and towns will look

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and feel,

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who's values they will reflect.

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How can design affect our sense of community?

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A lot of people say conventional suburbs,

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you know,

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hundreds of thousands of people live

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in that environment

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and are quite happy.

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And what's the matter with that?

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Well, nothing's the matter with that.

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But we like to think that perhaps,

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part of the problem is that

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there isn't an alternative out there.

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Murray's Corner is an alternative

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and I think the success of it demonstrates

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that people want something different.

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Instead of a subdivision

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with big front yards

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that are full of cars

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and trucks and boats.

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You have a neighborhood

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that all the cars are hidden at the back.

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I like the low maintenance aspect

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and the publicly owned green space right in front

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of our house that we all share,

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and I like watching the kids roller blade.

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It's not like you're in a fenced up house

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and you can't go out.

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It was the perfect project

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and probably the first perfect project

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that crossed our desks

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that we thought,

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here we can really do something special

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in the suburbs.

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Three and a half years later,

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you know, Murray's Corner began to emerge.

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Have a sit.

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I think a neighborhood either facilitates

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the development of community

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or it hinders it.

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And I think the good thing here

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is that the neighborhood,

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the way the houses are arranged

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and the parks and so forth

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facilitate the development of the community.

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We go to the municipal hall

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and there's a recipe

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for designing that site

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and that recipe is subdivision by-laws

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and zoning by-laws.

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So our challenge was to work

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with the planning department

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and the engineering departments

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and to change all those rules.

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Essentially the entire zoning by-law

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to make a custom fit for Murray's Corner.

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We like some of the others thought

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the garage suites looked a little peculiar

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when we first looked,

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you know at the neighborhood.

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But we've gotten accustomed to that

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and really,

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really like it.

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There's some resistance in our society in general

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to have things like these suites

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and that type of thing above the garage.

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One of those opportunities that we have

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in this neighborhood here.

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There's always inertia involved

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in bringing about change

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and there's always fear of difference.

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So the idea that my,

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you know, single family neighborhood

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might actually have stores

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or might actually have places

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for single people rather than families

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is scary to people

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cause they haven't experienced it for a while.

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it takes demonstration projects more than anything else.

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It takes one or two communities

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to step out in front and say,

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create these places. And then other people look in and say,

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yeah,

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that really would work,

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I'm not afraid of that.

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All these people are coming out

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and they hear that at Murray's Corner

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we're gonna do higher density,

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we are going to introduce legal secondary suites

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over the garage.

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We're gonna have the audacity

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to take the garage away

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from the front of the house

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and stick it into a lane.

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What's gonna happen to parking?

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What's gonna happen to the street scape?

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Why are they introducing pocket parks

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in the middle of this community?

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So as it turned out,

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I think we had one of the largest public hearings

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that the township of Langley has ever had.

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And people stood up and said,

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We do not want renters in our neighborhood,

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We don't want people living over secondary suites.

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They're gonna each have an additional two cars

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and this is gonna become a massive parking lot

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and they're gonna downgrade our neighborhood.

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And that was a pretty shocking response.

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And we actually believed,

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and it's come to fruition

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that Murray's Corner has lifted the value

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of the neighborhood and the community

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because of the way it was designed.

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two to two.

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Pressure.

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When we moved to the neighborhood,

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I felt being in neighborhoods

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that were quite distanced,

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that we would at least make an attempt

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to meet those around us

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and try to really encourage family togetherness

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and community togetherness.

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And so one Friday night we delivered jars

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of jam

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to all of our neighbors around us

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and it was just the most delightful evening.

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Let us see if I can beat you.

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You can really sense at Murray's Corner

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that there's a stronger sense of neighborhood

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than there is

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in the surrounding conventional suburbs.

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I guess in a way you're forced

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to get to know your neighbors because they are right there.

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And I wasn't sure that that was what I wanted

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when we moved here.

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But I can tell you that I think it's terrific,

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I really do.

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The Crossing's attempts

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to integrate a range

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of different household types in one project

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and seems to work very nicely.

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There's small lot,

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single family,

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there are townhouses,

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there are row houses,

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there're gonna be apartments built.

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They're all clustered around transit

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so there's some choice there.

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The details are really simple.

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A lot of people think it's nostalgia and retro,

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but I think a front porch

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is a pretty interesting metaphor

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of a profound shift.

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When we replace that with the garage door

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it was a, you know,

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pretty big statement of,

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you know, what our connection to the world is.

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Our connection to the world is not us

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it's our car,

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it's our mobility.

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And the street scapes suffer of course.

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Knowing neighbors now becomes a more

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and more important thing

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for households.

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A sense of security

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with two people working in households

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that the kids,

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you know, the sense that the neighborhood is strong

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and neighbors will look after each other's kids,

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which used to be the way things always were.

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I had one parent tell me

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in one of these neighborhoods

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where we did the radical thing

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of putting porches back on,

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they said well, you know,

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I don't think that very

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many adults sit out there

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but I feel so much more comfortable

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with my kids playing on the street,

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which kids will always do.

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Cause I know somewhere on the street,

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an adult probably is sitting out front.

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I picked two different weekends side by side,

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after the long weekend,

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October 19th and 20th

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we could place the top soil.

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We think that the community members are

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the best designers,

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and you gotta shift away from reacting

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to the strategies of all the professionals

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and the specialists.

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Although I think everybody's willing to-

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We're all in.

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Willing and able to chip in.

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I mean, somebody's gotta have a vision

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of what the master plan is.

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I think we should have a meeting

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of the crew chiefs,

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the week before.

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So that we're all...

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that organizational information

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is filtered down

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first thing that morning,

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you know, we all are on the same start.

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Designing things is integrating things,

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integrating all the different things

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and the community members are the best people to do it.

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They have to have the tools

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Garden Drive got started,

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because the engineering department

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and the city of Vancouver had an idea

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that streets weren't,

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residential streets weren't quite doing

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what they should.

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Add in an excellent city engineer,

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Sheri Reed,

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who then began working

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with the community right at the beginning

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in terms of the community inviting itself out

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to be part of this activity.

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So it wasn't a City Hall

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come and meet the engineers,

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dah-de-dah-de-dah.

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It was much more,

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let's all get together

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and see what we can do here.

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This is very much a collaboration

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with City Hall.

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At least that's my perspective

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and it's interesting when we first came

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into the neighborhood

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and it was hilarious.

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we sent out a notice to everyone

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within a several block radius and,

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50 people came to this town hall style meeting,

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you know, the traditional us and them people at the front

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and they were hopping angry.

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I mean, any kind of notice that comes

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from City Hall is like,

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they're coming to us for taxes, aren't they?

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But as the discussion went on

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and Moura Quayle gave her slideshow

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of what is possible in their streets,

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you know how they could make it their own

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from as simple as planting wildflowers

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in the boulevards

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to totally re-looking

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at how we lay the bones of a street,

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they were just totally turned on.

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(indistinct)

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I said great, I'm still looking for plants.

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You got any plants?(laughing)

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And she said, wow,

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she loved the idea, so.

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The whole design is as unique as this neighborhood.

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Some people wanna be more traditional

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and other people don't.

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In our block,

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we have a high dirt curb

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and frankly we like it

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but it's hard to utilize.

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So we thought hey, wood.

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Wood used to be used a lot,

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let's try it.

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And the city said,

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yeah okay, we'll do it.

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And we went, yes,

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something new.

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You're really taking us seriously.

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The park competition,

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it's not an artist giving us a design.

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It is an artist giving us a process

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to work with the neighborhood

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to come up with the design.

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(mumbling)

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If this is the road,

325
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normally the road would be the road.

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This is the existing side walk here.

327
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This is the existing one.
so from here it widen,

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its wider here

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and narrows to there.
Yeah.

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Great.
Exactly.

331
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And shifts over a little bit.

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When we think of the fact that Vancouver,

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as a city,

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one third of the land area is streets.

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You gotta look at that land area

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and say it has to perform better.

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So I mean,

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it has to be a community builder,

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it has to contribute to the urban ecology

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of the neighborhood,

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it has to be more beautiful

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because in fact,

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we are out on our streets every day.

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We want natural landscapes

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and sun blocks,

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more formalized landscapes in others

347
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because again,

348
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just like the street work itself,

349
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we're individual.

350
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I want herbs myself.

351
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I wanna have some things

352
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that I can go out and clip

353
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and throw into my soup pot.

354
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This is where sidewalk is

355
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We're actually

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so the sidewalk's in here?

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Yes.

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And so if there's still a movement through,

359
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on the sidewalk.

360
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I guess what I'm talking about

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from a community building point of view

362
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is bringing people out on the street.

363
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And it's the old Jane Jacobs quote,

364
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"eyes on the street".

365
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And I think that's gonna help the street

366
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become a place in the community

367
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not just a leftover.

368
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Obviously we're still gonna have cars.

369
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Maybe they're gonna be electric,

370
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we hope and that's gonna help air quality

371
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but we're still going to be planning

372
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with that vehicle in mind.

373
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And I think we need to bring balance

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to how that vehicle interacts with communities.

375
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(soft music)

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We have a street in Berkeley,

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we call a slow street.

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The street's name is Milview.

379
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We call it Milview Slow Street.

380
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In about 1980,

381
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a number of us who were working

382
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in a environmental group at the time decided

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that we wanted to redesign this street.

384
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And so what we did with Milview was move the parking

385
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from one side of the street to the other

386
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halfway down the block

387
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and then take the center line

388
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so it wiggled from one side to the other somewhat.

389
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So the traffic

390
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would have to wind as it went down the street

391
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and it would wind back again later on

392
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and so on.

393
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And we planted trees out towards the center

394
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and studies have demonstrated

395
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that simply the presence of trees closer

396
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to the car flow actually slows everybody down.

397
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And we actually had a winner there

398
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because we had not only the ecological element

399
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but everybody in the neighborhood loved it.

400
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Now their kids were safer out in the front yards.

401
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People were going slower

402
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so you could talk to one another more easily

403
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and it encouraged bicyclists.

404
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And of course, if you're bicycling you can stop

405
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and say hello to someone very easily.

406
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(milk pouring into a cup)
(soft music)

407
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I thought I got so hooked on Bojangles.

408
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I thought that,

409
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that's the only one.

410
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Well, I hope you wouldn't mind going...

411
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I think that we need to go in training

412
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about having public lives

413
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because I think there's been a real swing

414
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over the last couple of decades to,

415
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well the cocooning idea,

416
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you know staying home.

417
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And I think that we're,

418
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the pendulum's swinging back now

419
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and the whole coffee shop boom,

420
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if you wanna call it that,

421
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I think is indicative

422
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of people wanting to be in a place,

423
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in a city,

424
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where it's comfortable to be in public

425
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but you don't have to know anybody.

426
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I like sitting out here

427
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because I can actually start to think

428
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about what I want to do

429
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and I can write

430
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because it just feels really alive.

431
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Mostly I enjoy watching people.

432
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I met my friend at a coffee shop

433
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Sun shining.

434
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And you know like you said, there's people going by,

435
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you talk to other people at other tables.

436
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It's just a friendly environment.

437
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It's almost like the same as sitting in my living room,

438
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except that I'm with other people.

439
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I don't like to be alone

440
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and you are alone in a big city.

441
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But if you're sitting outside a lot

442
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of acquaintances will go by

443
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and there's just a nod

444
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and you're here all together

445
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in the world together.

446
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It's fall,

447
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the leaves are out,

448
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It smells nice.

449
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You come out for a cup of coffee,

450
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you sit outside.

451
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You meet friends walking by.

452
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Hello , how are you?

453
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It's a neighborhood feeling.

454
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That's why I like it.

455
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Maybe the coffee shop is the beginning

456
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but we don't know where it's gonna go.

457
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And so I think it's really exciting to think

458
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about all of us coming to grips

459
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with the fact that we do own the streets,

460
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that they are public.

461
00:16:45.120 --> 00:16:47.030
And that we own sidewalks.

462
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They are public.

463
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And it's okay for us to sit out there 24 hours a day.

464
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I mean, it has to do with democracy.

465
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And that has something to say about community,

466
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it also has something to say about designers

467
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and planners.

468
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They have to listen a lot more to people

469
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about what it takes to make community

470
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and what the places and spaces are

471
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that people wanna be in.

472
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(laughter)

473
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(soft music)

474
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How nature finds its way into the city,

475
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I find exciting.

476
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And I think that part

477
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of the way we're gonna find communities,

478
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I hope we're gonna find communities growing

479
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in the future,

480
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is that nature is gonna be invited more

481
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and more into our cities.

482
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(soft music)
(water streaming)

483
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In late 1970s,

484
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there was a movement to defend creeks in Berkeley,

485
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to try to bring them back.

486
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And this creek here,

487
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at Strawberry Creek Park,

488
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was brought back from being underground

489
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for about 80 years at that point.

490
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Most parks are designed by people

491
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and have brought into particular park preconceptions

492
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from somewhere else.

493
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In fact,

494
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we're sitting in a landscape that's really

495
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from England,

496
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not from Western United States.

497
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So this is a contrivance.

498
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It's okay.

499
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It's green, it's nice to be here.

500
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You can play on it and so on.

501
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But a creek is something far richer than that.

502
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(water streaming)

503
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Creeks bring an enormous amount

504
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to community tells you where you are.

505
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It tells you your history.

506
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It tells you how biology works.

507
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It speaks to the kids,

508
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it speaks to the old people.

509
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It adds a kind of a murmuring sound,

510
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a very soothing,

511
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pleasant sound of the water moving

512
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over the rocks to environments.

513
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It's just something that's unreproducible.

514
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Now you can reproduce elements of it,

515
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which is wonderful.

516
00:18:48.943 --> 00:18:50.040
You can do waterfalls,

517
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artificial waterfalls and fountains in cities

518
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and things like this.

519
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And I encourage people to actually build

520
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those sorts of sculptures

521
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and monuments and so on.

522
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But the creek has something else going for it.

523
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And I think something extremely important,

524
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especially because now the human community

525
00:19:07.490 --> 00:19:09.853
is so much out of sync with the natural community

526
00:19:09.853 --> 00:19:12.480
that we need every reminder we can get,

527
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that we are part of nature.

528
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No one likes to give away two hours of their day

529
00:19:20.370 --> 00:19:22.053
for commuting back and forth.

530
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But you know,

531
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when you have an opportunity to live

532
00:19:25.120 --> 00:19:26.470
in a neighborhood like this

533
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and the the rural setting

534
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and the city setting

535
00:19:29.510 --> 00:19:32.460
and all the kind of amenities being close to you,

536
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it worth the trade off.

537
00:19:34.140 --> 00:19:38.220
There's lots of farms you can go to get fresh eggs,

538
00:19:38.220 --> 00:19:39.793
you can get fresh apples.

539
00:19:40.730 --> 00:19:43.460
You can take your friends for walks.

540
00:19:43.460 --> 00:19:46.500
I think there's a very deep urge

541
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in most people to have both culture

542
00:19:48.350 --> 00:19:50.150
and nature simultaneously,

543
00:19:50.150 --> 00:19:52.790
to have their community in nature.

544
00:19:52.790 --> 00:19:54.250
And I think actually

545
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if you look at the suburbs,

546
00:19:55.810 --> 00:19:57.910
which we see as an ecological problem

547
00:19:57.910 --> 00:19:59.867
because of the smog from the cars going out there

548
00:19:59.867 --> 00:20:02.017
and the energy that's squandered and so on,

549
00:20:03.110 --> 00:20:05.130
the impulse is actually a very good impulse

550
00:20:05.130 --> 00:20:07.510
because people are trying to have both nature

551
00:20:07.510 --> 00:20:11.043
and a place to be with their idea of community.

552
00:20:14.990 --> 00:20:17.970
When people talk about why they love the suburbs,

553
00:20:17.970 --> 00:20:19.930
it's not just they have a bigger lot.

554
00:20:19.930 --> 00:20:23.160 line:15%
It's the whole sense of,

555
00:20:23.160 --> 00:20:25.460 line:15%
stronger sense of nature you get there

556
00:20:25.460 --> 00:20:27.453 line:15%
than in most inner city neighborhoods.

557
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I think we're on the edge of a period

558
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where people are identifying the lessons of both

559
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and trying to combine them

560
00:20:36.400 --> 00:20:40.070
into places which are denser,

561
00:20:40.070 --> 00:20:42.420
are less controlling,

562
00:20:42.420 --> 00:20:45.080
allow for a greater mix of uses.

563
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Same time accommodate car to a certain degree,

564
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have a closer relationship with nature

565
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and work with landscape not against it,

566
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work with public transit.

567
00:21:00.600 --> 00:21:03.450
I live in a early planned suburb called Summerhill Gardens.

568
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It's absolutely fascinating.

569
00:21:05.200 --> 00:21:07.950
It has quite a density of housing.

570
00:21:07.950 --> 00:21:10.470
It's got curvilinear streets,

571
00:21:10.470 --> 00:21:11.303
believe it or not,

572
00:21:11.303 --> 00:21:12.393
that actually work,

573
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have parking on them.

574
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Work for cars,

575
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work for people.

576
00:21:17.730 --> 00:21:19.450
We live in a small apartment building,

577
00:21:19.450 --> 00:21:20.920
there are single family homes

578
00:21:20.920 --> 00:21:22.540
or duplexes

579
00:21:22.540 --> 00:21:25.960
and this incredible reservoir,

580
00:21:25.960 --> 00:21:26.960
which is another big part

581
00:21:26.960 --> 00:21:28.310
of where the neighborhood gathers

582
00:21:28.310 --> 00:21:30.010
and people walk their dogs.

583
00:21:30.010 --> 00:21:32.263
It's got an incredible mix of things.

584
00:21:33.480 --> 00:21:35.930
We're taking lessons from both sides of history

585
00:21:35.930 --> 00:21:38.253
and combining them into new solutions.

586
00:21:40.913 --> 00:21:41.980
A lot of people would like to think,

587
00:21:41.980 --> 00:21:44.000
we don't have to extend the city anymore.

588
00:21:44.000 --> 00:21:47.900
We can draw a line around it and just intensify inside.

589
00:21:47.900 --> 00:21:49.690
I don't happen to think that's possible.

590
00:21:49.690 --> 00:21:52.450
I mean, it's historically never happened.

591
00:21:52.450 --> 00:21:53.920
I think it's sticking your head

592
00:21:53.920 --> 00:21:55.704
in another kind of sand.

593
00:21:55.704 --> 00:21:58.121
(soft music)

594
00:22:00.754 --> 00:22:02.910
It's gonna be a major extension

595
00:22:02.910 --> 00:22:05.298
to Toronto build in this area.

596
00:22:05.298 --> 00:22:06.450
It's gonna accommodate something

597
00:22:06.450 --> 00:22:08.000
like a hundred thousand people.

598
00:22:09.260 --> 00:22:10.260
Rather than this being treated

599
00:22:10.260 --> 00:22:11.800
as a blank piece of paper

600
00:22:11.800 --> 00:22:14.320
that we're going to build this new town on,

601
00:22:14.320 --> 00:22:16.550
all that you see here will be incorporated

602
00:22:16.550 --> 00:22:17.593
within the town.

603
00:22:18.860 --> 00:22:20.960
Whitevale and other existing hamlets

604
00:22:20.960 --> 00:22:22.590
will remain as they are.

605
00:22:22.590 --> 00:22:24.570
In fact, they'll be on the edges

606
00:22:24.570 --> 00:22:25.720
of the new development.

607
00:22:26.880 --> 00:22:30.150
These people are so used to developers coming in

608
00:22:30.150 --> 00:22:31.350
and obliterating their towns,

609
00:22:31.350 --> 00:22:32.440
they've argued vehemently

610
00:22:32.440 --> 00:22:35.030
for 20 years to be left on the edge

611
00:22:35.030 --> 00:22:35.870
and left alone,

612
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left as they are

613
00:22:36.703 --> 00:22:37.536
and they will be.

614
00:22:38.630 --> 00:22:40.430
Leaving the landscape

615
00:22:40.430 --> 00:22:42.150
and working with the existing trees means

616
00:22:42.150 --> 00:22:44.260
there is a nature here already

617
00:22:45.650 --> 00:22:47.190
and hopefully the birds

618
00:22:47.190 --> 00:22:48.710
and many of the insects

619
00:22:48.710 --> 00:22:50.920
and animals that live here will also be part

620
00:22:50.920 --> 00:22:51.753
of the town.

621
00:22:51.753 --> 00:22:53.010
Why not?

622
00:22:53.010 --> 00:22:54.460
One of the other lessons that we're bringing

623
00:22:54.460 --> 00:22:57.140
from the older part of the city is that,

624
00:22:57.140 --> 00:22:59.240
it's acknowledged that it will develop incrementally

625
00:22:59.240 --> 00:23:00.770
over time.

626
00:23:00.770 --> 00:23:03.640
It won't be a place that's built as a product,

627
00:23:03.640 --> 00:23:04.850
finished, complete.

628
00:23:04.850 --> 00:23:07.160
It will be built out as a start

629
00:23:07.160 --> 00:23:08.730
and it'll try and acknowledge

630
00:23:08.730 --> 00:23:09.990
the fact that people will continue

631
00:23:09.990 --> 00:23:12.630
to layer on additional buildings,

632
00:23:12.630 --> 00:23:13.790
expand what they have

633
00:23:13.790 --> 00:23:17.410
and then it'll gradually grow denser over time

634
00:23:17.410 --> 00:23:18.800
as the older cities did,

635
00:23:18.800 --> 00:23:22.230
as opposed to being built all as a,

636
00:23:22.230 --> 00:23:25.533
one product that you either accept or reject.

637
00:23:26.496 --> 00:23:28.913
(soft music)

638
00:23:30.330 --> 00:23:31.590
Successful communities

639
00:23:31.590 --> 00:23:33.330
and places that we all love

640
00:23:33.330 --> 00:23:35.710
are ones that grow incrementally,

641
00:23:35.710 --> 00:23:39.170
that begin with a kind of framework

642
00:23:39.170 --> 00:23:42.600
and then are actually built upon

643
00:23:42.600 --> 00:23:45.000
almost like barnacles grow

644
00:23:45.000 --> 00:23:48.823
or just a much more incremental approach.

645
00:23:55.800 --> 00:23:57.150
Right now we're just beginning

646
00:23:57.150 --> 00:23:58.940
the construction process,

647
00:23:58.940 --> 00:24:00.380
to work on the street.

648
00:24:00.380 --> 00:24:02.090
There's gonna be parts of the street

649
00:24:02.090 --> 00:24:04.440
that are going to be totally ripped up.

650
00:24:04.440 --> 00:24:06.150
Other parts will be preserved

651
00:24:06.150 --> 00:24:09.153
and begun to be just worked with.

652
00:24:11.000 --> 00:24:13.670
The goal is that it should be

653
00:24:13.670 --> 00:24:15.110
never finished

654
00:24:15.110 --> 00:24:17.190
but always complete.

655
00:24:17.190 --> 00:24:20.810
So there's some sense that it's always together

656
00:24:20.810 --> 00:24:23.323
but that people can always be adding to it.

657
00:24:25.430 --> 00:24:28.283
I hope there's always gonna be changes on Garden Drive.

658
00:24:29.630 --> 00:24:31.153
That was absolutely lovely.

659
00:24:31.153 --> 00:24:32.240
You know that's,

660
00:24:32.240 --> 00:24:33.073
that really is based

661
00:24:33.073 --> 00:24:34.413
on the discussions we had.

662
00:24:35.473 --> 00:24:37.870
(crosstalk)

663
00:24:37.870 --> 00:24:39.570
We asked people

664
00:24:39.570 --> 00:24:40.810
what was important to them

665
00:24:40.810 --> 00:24:42.640
about the urban landscape.

666
00:24:42.640 --> 00:24:45.560
People really value their neighborhoods,

667
00:24:45.560 --> 00:24:47.660
you know slash community.

668
00:24:47.660 --> 00:24:50.350
That that's an important part of their lives

669
00:24:50.350 --> 00:24:53.200
and they identify with their community.

670
00:24:53.200 --> 00:24:55.970
And so part of what we have to do

671
00:24:55.970 --> 00:24:58.890
is strengthen those ties

672
00:24:58.890 --> 00:25:01.510
and make those communities work even better.

673
00:25:01.510 --> 00:25:03.610
And where there aren't communities,

674
00:25:03.610 --> 00:25:05.593
begin to help people create them.

675
00:25:08.223 --> 00:25:10.640
(soft music)