Douglass, This calls out to me as something very wrong. Like little castles with moats around them. I am just now coming to understand that the construction of communities is a fundamental essential feature of being human today, and I, for one, have been partially asleep to this. We are biological, linguistic, historical, and social animals. I've moved my wife and I into a community of about 150 people in 100 apartments where we have an active, designed social life, a theatre, restaurant, exercise facilities, and much more, and I can see the historic way that we have been seduced to an interpretation in which our individual orientations (and technological focii) have been hiding from us much of the human condition. Best, Chauncey
PS: I returned to this Substack after I've seen this picture today from a totally different source on X, and one of my first associations was with Michael's "GardenWorld". I had the hunch that the picture was/will be posted here :)
Douglass, This calls out to me as something very wrong. Like little castles with moats around them. I am just now coming to understand that the construction of communities is a fundamental essential feature of being human today, and I, for one, have been partially asleep to this. We are biological, linguistic, historical, and social animals. I've moved my wife and I into a community of about 150 people in 100 apartments where we have an active, designed social life, a theatre, restaurant, exercise facilities, and much more, and I can see the historic way that we have been seduced to an interpretation in which our individual orientations (and technological focii) have been hiding from us much of the human condition. Best, Chauncey
Where is this? Tell us more. No vehicles?
It's "De runde haver" = "The round gardens" in Naerum suburban district, North of Copenhagen, Denmark. https://www.derundehaver.dk/Fotos
The Unique Oval Community Gardens of Copenhagen
https://www.odditycentral.com/architecture/the-unique-oval-community-gardens-of-copenhagen.html
PS: I returned to this Substack after I've seen this picture today from a totally different source on X, and one of my first associations was with Michael's "GardenWorld". I had the hunch that the picture was/will be posted here :)