We have to do commerce differently because the WalMart system of big box chain retail will soon die. This means rebuilding local main street economies (networks of local economic interdependency).

Two decades from now, I doubt that the home building industry, so called, will even exist as we have known it.

For instance, the most common type of "affordable housing" in the world comes in the form of apartments over stores.

Of course, the toxic bullshit of incessant advertising and show biz for nearly a century has stripped us of cognitive abilities for dealing with reality that used to be part of the normal equipment of adulthood - for instance, knowing the difference between wishing for stuff and making stuff happen. We bamboozled ourselves with too much magic.

I believe most of suburbia is unreformable and will not be fixed.

The living arrangements American now think of as normal are bankrupting us economically, socially, ecologically and spiritually.

Community is not something you have, like pizza. Now is it something you can buy. It's a living organism based on a web of interdependencies- which is to say, a local economy. It expresses itself physically as connectedness, as buildings actively relating to each other, and to whatever public space exists, be it the street, or the courthouse or the village green.