[JKCalhoun]

Looks to me like leprechaun-land. How cynical I have become.

I agree with the sentiment though, just wonder if it would benefit from someone positing a middle-ground that would show a transitional approach. Perhaps some of the larger buildings (I'm thinking of the one with the fountain spilling down it) represent that.

[gmueckl]

Visionaries often focus on the end goals, not the path. This might be the easy way to excite people, I guess. Talking about a path there sounds too much like actually having to put in effort.

I think I also have become quite cynical. Being confronted with these ideas made me aware of that in a startling way.

[JKCalhoun]

Me too. All I can conjure up is Fuller-worshipping hippies creating dome homes and communes. And it feels like: tried that. Next!

Maybe the second time it will actually work.

[clairity]

because of the moderate climate, california has a lot of flat roofs. i've long wondered why apartment builders here didn't just plop (and planners allowed) a single family home right on top with enough dirt to grow a lawn and a few plants (with parking put underground). it's the best of both worlds--apartments and single family homes (albeit above ground level) can co-exist everywhere. that'd be one such middle ground.

[JKCalhoun]

Apartments need only add a communal garden that tenants can opt into.