Architecture and planning?

It is apparent in all of our civilizations developments of architecture and planning?

We plan our world. It can be as simple as the foot path of ancestors to tribes purposely remaining cut off from the rest of us. For all who are not living in these remotest regions there is a plan which we are connected to and we consider it unconventional, tragic, or insane to live without sheltering architectures. But, the pace must slow now. While the first world and its third cousin would not know how to stop building; this is essentially the choice we face. It has been pointed out that only the cost of another Chinese expansion to accommodate 200 million new citizens in city housing will use up enough cement and related material costs to poison the world in byproducts of gas. What about when we add India, then the consolidating city states within African and Latin nations. Add that up. We do not need to even build any new buildings or pave any new streets in the USA, western Europe, Japan or their colonies and the world is toasted.

But, as I just pointed out, the likelihood of western powers putting a stop work order on even its most silly projects (like my favorite example: repeated puncturing of ceiling walls in atmosphere in a rush to deliver some sense of antigravity to a few billionaires. Even the safest Atolls, once spread so far as to be able to survive each neighbors nitrogen bomb tests, even these are no safe consolation. Not from water patterns to rising seas - distance no longer determines isolation.

So what now? Mitigation.

Esri technologies combined with purposeful sequestration and conservation and tools (governmental, economic) to push reintroduction of localized production and beneficial social habits (mass clean ups, tree planting, micronurseries etc). How can this be accomplished? Through intentional communication and education. Through sensitization internationally.

Dental care abroad and socialism: orthodontists and lawyers are a dime a dozen

This is an attempt at a very mundane blog.

It has to do with real estate in Cordoba, Argentina. It is a warning not to trust either your guts or your agents when attempting to navigate (short term) apartment rentals here in Cordoba. On a larger scale though, I hope it also offers an outsider's eye and critique for what can be very appealing coming from the US or other mainstream capitalist western economies - socialism in medicine and education.

While I may be speaking about dental care abroad and socialism. That is because my experience has been that orthodontists and lawyers are a dime a dozen here. And, I keep asking why? And I think I have some ideas why. I also keep asking, is there any benefit? Are things out of whack?

So again, the mundane perseveres and I would like to project it for the reader's benefit.

The further you get....

The further you get from home, the more you understand your self.

Were that that were more true! Actually, painstakingly... for most of us, we only understand from the view point from which we have arrived. We gobble up what is common and put on hold reaching for fuller understanding when things seem different. With time, our aversion relaxes, we can become nominally normal.

We are in the middle of a wonderful 5 month immersion in Cordoba Argentina. And I am drawn yet again, to begin a blog which will be of service to me and to you.

Thihs is the blog of the mundane part of life. Right now, it centers on Cordoba, Argentina.

If you are from abroad and planning to live here; my point of view may aid you.

then again it may not. At least, insofar as you may disagree.

but, in writing it, and in reading or critiquing my blog I offer you a small gift - the mundane.