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When you think of the word ‘Home’ the brain takes two paths according where you are from and how the architectural environment around shaped your upbringing. There are important difference on how we define Home and what it represents for many.
Having living in Canada and exploring the meaning of urban life in the continent including the US, I understood the social blueprints that crates a familiar environment worth of being called Home. However, there are differences that have to be analyzed so we can better understand the built environment.
Ask an immigrant from Europe or Middle-East what home means and then do the same with someone born in North America. It will be surprising to see how the former defines Home the village they came from, while the latter will answer pointing out their home property.
Why this?- Home is not just the physical structure you spend most of your life in, it’s the domain you grew up and experienced many of the important episodes that allowed you to mature, it’s the beyond of the four walls with surrounding and those living around. And here is where we can highlight how the urban design comes to play.
Town fairs have been the best method of bonding for people with their neighbors.
Those born in the Old Continent can recall how their upbringing did not just involved their home property, but everything that crafted and contributed individual to network their life with their nearby environment. Neighbors, the local park, the bakery around the corner, the short walk to school, the fast bike rides across streets, and so on.
All of that represents an intense web of experiences fundamental to master their own territory and limitations. Also, the organic urban design layout made it possible for people to easily remember where locations are and what best path to take. Home for many is their village and their community with familiar places and friendly faces.
On the other side we have a North American architecture of regions where its people call home their very own property, especially suburban families that make up the majority of households. Millions of citizens are dependent upon technology in order to exit their realm. Whether in the form of cars to reach the supermarket or other people, or via electronic gadgets to seek the opinion of others.
Low-residential homes in the shape of tract housing are and feel artificial, they bare no signature of their owners or their community. Roads and intersections are perfectly square made for mechanical solutions like the car. Each house on the subdivision looks just like the next one: same roof line, same garage door, same windows, same driveway, same builder.
Gated communities isolate households from being synchronized with the rest of the urban fabric.
This has been devoiding individuals of the meaning of home. Even if those living in the suburb can claim their gated community is their home, they are quick to forget they cannot leave unless they have a car and those walking around are stopped by security because they might not belong there.
In the suburbs of North America we have seen how generations became alienated from their neighbors because the architectural environment sets physical walls. This is preventing individuals to socialize among each others despite living feet apart.
Home is an experience crafted by the collection of places and social interactions. People need to physically connect so they can share tales for the bonding to happen, so each and one of them connects understanding their human habitat.
Ways To Obtain Additional Web Traffic To Your Website
Everything you do online is more or less pointless without having traffic. You can have the very best developed website or the very best products for sale however if you never ever get any website traffic, you won’t have an online service.
You can pay for traffic to drive visitors to your website or you can utilize totally free website traffic strategies. Here are 10 ways you can increase the quantity of free website traffic you receive.
1. Know Your Keywords
Keywords are the words that a possible client will type into a search engine when looking for product and services that relate to your online organisation. Ensure that your website material consists of these keywords. The search engines supply a potential client with a list of websites that match their keyword search.
2. Build An Email Database
When you have an e-mail database list of prospective consumers, you send out emails to your list to direct them to your website whenever you publish or publish something new on it.
3. Email Signature
Add your website address into your e-mail signature. Ask your readers to share and visit it.
4. Visitor Blog
Search for authority figures in your industry and ask if they will accept as visitor blog post from you. If they consent to publish something for you, produce an initial piece of material for them and supply it with an excellent image or image to accompany the post. Include a brief bio with a link to your website.
5. Get Onto YouTube
YouTube is a great complimentary traffic generator. Videos are much easier to make than you probably believe! Include your website URL in your videos, and in the description. Do not forget to inform individuals to visit your website in your videos too.
6. Sign Up With a Specialized Blogging Community
Many specialized neighborhoods are free to sign up with. But even if there is a little charge think of signing up with one in order to get traffic to your website.
7. Enhance Your Search Engine Optimization
Learn as much as you can about search engine optimization. It’s important if you want to get more totally free website traffic.
8. Produce a Site Map
A site map is a list of pages on your website that you want indexed by the online search engine. If you utilize the WordPress platform to manage your website you can get a plugin to assist you create a sitemap.
9. Create a Facebook Page
Develop a Facebook page so that you can display your article and posts on Facebook. Utilize a “find out more” tab to connect to your website.
10. Publish Articles In Popular Ezines
Ezines are online newsletters and are published in just about every niche you can image. Check out the leading ones in your market and deal to compose relevant material for their newsletter for exchange for a link back to your website.
Visit60 minutes free traffic formula if you want more traffic to your website.
Thought Congestion
Another collaboration with Becky Hawkins! (frenchtoastcomix) This one was written by me, and drawn by Becky. If you enjoy these cartoons, please reblog or support them on my Patreon . A $1 pledge really helps!
To read my notes about the cartoon, check out the original patreon post!
Transcript:
TRANSCRIPT OF COMIC
The comic has four panels.
PANEL 1
The panel shows backed-up traffic on an overpass in the foreground. In the background, we can see more backed-up highways, and behind that the buildings of a small city, including a white building with a big dome on top and a US flag - i.e., a government building. Two word balloons come from that building. The balloons belong to characters I will call MAYOR and NERD.
MAYOR: The city just spent half a billion widening roads. But we still have traffic congestion!
NERD: Well, Mr. Mayor, studies show that adding lanes doesn’t fix traffic.
PANEL 2
Inside the mayor’s office. There is a big curtained window and a fancy executive desk with a big leather chair. In front of the desk is the Mayor - a man in a suit with gray hair - and a woman who is a nerd, by which I mean she’s wearing glasses, has her hair in a bun, and is carrying a stack of three-ring binders.
The Mayor is making a “stop talking” gesture, holding up a hand flat in front of the nerd’s face. The mayor looks angry, and his eyes are bloodshot.
NERD: People’s capacity to drive is greater than our capacity to build roads, so-
MAYOR: Blah blah blah! We’ve got to do something!
PANEL 3
The mayor, now looking happy, makes a big sweeping gesture with his hand, causing the surprised nerd to drop her binders.
NERD: Um…
MAYOR: I’ve got it!
PANEL 4
The mayor and the nerd are now on stage, the mayor behind the podium and the nerd to one side and behind him. There is a cheering crowd watching the mayor speak.
The Mayor is waving a hand grandly as he speaks. The nerd is face-palming.
MAYOR: Good news, citizens! We’re widening the roads again!
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Paisage urbano con Casa de los Azuelos, Ciudad de México, 1980.
I have not been in the city since the mid 1980s, but I was glad to learn that the Casa de los Azuelos, an 18th century patrician mansion, is still in good condition and still occupied by a Sanborns restaurant. When I used to go to México with some frequency, Sanborns was my favorite breakfast spot, and the interior of this one was quite impressive.
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