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Economic Engines and County
Editing
Trunk roads and the generation of wealth. Where do they go wrong?
When they design cities, they assign a basic road which will be the trunk
road of the town. Often this can be an existing road, but usually it's the
Main Street, or whatever other name they want to assign to it. From there
another main road intersects that and a symmetrical sort of grid can developed,
if the city is one that comes off the drawing board in recent history when they
had paved roads.
But the main attention, which never really gets put into the planning,
because they don't really allot for economic engineering, is how the city's
roads connect in the surrounding county to other towns and cities. The
concept of economic engines, or as I call it, ECONEN, is largely unknown.
I don't know why. There it's been for centuries right in front of their
obstinate, power crazed noses. That's why I dropped out of Oxford back in
the 70's, people were studying the past instead of learning the present.
It turned out I was right. My travels helped me learn something I would
have never properly learned if I had come out laundered with an institutional
mentality.
The connectivity of the economically engineered avenues of concourse will not
tend to impoverish a town, but will enrich it on an exponential scale, along
with all it's connected to. This can be done on purpose; it can be built.
The town planners need to not only plan for the town but also for the
surrounding crossroads in the county, since they will also grow into towns and
gain an interdependence of prosperity with the original town.
Copyright (c) 2005 by Paul A. L. Hall. All rights reserved.
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June 01, 2005
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