The Joy of Slow Cities

It’s entirely possible that in The Future, we’ll come to realize that slower cities are better than fast.  A city in which the fastest thing on the street is a bicycle is a place for living, for being, for enjoying in its own right.  Walking, chatting, stopping on a whim at any shop or park or patio.  We were lulled into a view of the future that was all high speed and high energy by the explosive industrialization of the early 20th century.  But our visions of the future can and do change.  We get to define what progress means.