Post in Boy Racers

Mar 15 03:25 UTC

Hi,

GROWING UP

I was interested to see boys of 20 and 22 years of age referred to as
'teenagers'. I had thought 'teen' meant up to nineteen. The inference is that
there are 'boy' racers of much older age who have not 'grown up'.

Human behaviours can modify with age, including those of autism with its
intensity but lack of understanidng of other's feelings.

 I remember, I think, in one of the books on Waldorf education (Rudolf Steiner
approach) about how children can develop through having regular events in their
lives. It might be music lessons, or feeding the chickens.. Such rhythm allows
them to develop their will, and I think it is that a developed will enables
them to control their own behaviour.

SUSPICIONS ABOUT MOTIVES URBAN COMPACTION

Writers have to be quite venturesome to write on this discussion group, because
we tend to expose one another to quite some analysis. Do I see the police under
attack for making business for themselves.? But police can be helpful. And
obviously health care workers can be, but I have heard some bad tales in USA
where dieting promoters can get the overweight with available insurance to
travel to another city for treatment, then get them psychiatrically  confined
till their insurance runs out. But anyway I get suspicious about all sorts of
market matters.. Maybe you can help me through the suspicion that one driver in
developing a compact urban form, where people have little land at hand for
gardens, is going to reduce people's alternatives to paying large amounts of
money for food.

In Cuba when the oil supply stopped from USSR they started converting car parks
to gardens. The price of oil is going up faster than many were forecasting. We
should have such thing in mind when planning.

There is also the impact of quakes an floods on the sewerage in a dense urban
form. The dense dwellers are very vulnerable. There will usually be some sort
of food around in say a 1/3 acre section. Plus the rules for stewardship of
biodiversity and the activity in that could be added.

RECREATION IN A COMPACT URBAN FORM

In the Green Party submission to Plan Change 1 to the Regional Policy Statement
the need is put for a compact urban form which gives people access to work,
school and shops via climate-friendly transport. But what about to recreation?
which is the reason for this article being in this thread.

The Green Party submission refers to community greens, or enclosed open air
spaces in between groups of dwellings. But what sort of recreation can happen?
It looks like parties – booze markets, because the sort of back yard with lots
of things to do won't be possible playing with solar energy plumbing &c.

The Green Party suggest an ongoing forum into the effects of urban compaction.
Will this proposed forum go into it?

How do we encourage other forms of recreation than car driving, and also
recreation which takes a car to get to it?

In my submission to the RPS change I gave data on the importance of gardening
as recreation. I was working out some of that submission on this forum so you
may have seen some of this:

 <http://users.snap.net.nz/~bsandle/RPS_submission_Sandle.pdf>

the morgan's valley photo is better here

<http://users.snap.net.nz/~bsandle/morgans_valley.jpg>

Second stage of submissions in support or disapproval of the origianl
submission closes on 28 March.

I haven't had much comment on my writing on this discussion group, too
embarassed to say you agree with some points?

Brian Sandle