GETTING YOUR HOUSE RIGHT
New Urbanism,
for the record, is very appealing to Cusato but she doesn’t like the way some
NUers approach it like a crusade. She doesn’t like Urbanism dictated by a list
created by a zealous NU convert.
“People don’t
want to be part of a movement, they just want to live in a great place,” she
said. “We need to strip the labels away and say `how long do you want to sit in
the car – 20-minute commute or two-hour commute? How much do you want to spend
on air conditioning and energy? Do you want to really live in your house, or do
you want to have a bunch of rooms you hardly ever use? Do you want to be able
to walk down the street to get a newspaper or visit a store, or do you always want
to need a car?’”
“The word `utopia’
needs to be purged from our vocabulary; you can’t go around sounding like
people who have an agenda,” Cusato continued. “We’re offering the greenest,
most economically sound and highest quality of life way to build. That is not a
niche, that’s at the heart of day-to-day existence of everybody in society.”
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Wright has written for a living for 25 years, with nearly 5,000
published articles. He lives in historic Little Havana
and is very active in Miami’s
urban issues. He and his wife of 20 years also are involved in making new and
old towns more accessible for people with disabilities.
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