How we recognized that the enemy was us.
Describe the sort of home and neighborhood you grew up in noting the setting, shape, size and configuration of your home and other residences in the neighborhood. Describe the area as far as the walking distance and what sorts of commercial or municipal land use was characteristic of the area.
Be prepared to explain it to the class and compare your neighborhood and home to the model home in Lakewood Park, California.
Lakewood Park has been called by some the largest community housing development in history. When finished, it will have a total of 17,150 homes.
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A new home, one of a type being built in Lakewood Park, a new community housing development in southern California. All homes are equipped with the following:
- Kitchens have. . .garbage pulverizer,
- double sink,
- stainless steel drainboard,
- painted wall shades.
- inlaid linoleum and
- bathrooms are equipped with rubber tile.
- All homes have either one or two-car garages.
- Gardens are dug over and a tree is planted in front of each house.
- Front and side lawns and shrubs are provided.
- septic tanks.
- electric heat.
- air conditioning
- setting: the exposure toward the south and sun.
- personal transportation or mass transit.
Homes for the 21st century:
Cartoonist Walt Kelly, in 1960s made this prophetic statement about the source of ecological degradation, and writer Norman Mailer suggested humans wer a cancer on the earh.
Aldo Leopold and a re-envisioning of the landscape.
Merchant's Chronology 1640-1992
