Machine City
or Green Ecology, Red Ecology
red_city
"Machines and other improvements must serve to ease the work of all and not to enable a few to grow rich at the expense of millions and tens of millions of people."
V.I. Lenin
Go, city, go!
Forget the car-free city/ I want a city that writhes under my feet
Forget the garden city/ Make mine electric treacle
More trees, but also
more concrete,
more wires.
More air,
more light,
more music,
more noise.
Don't make an enemy of the future.
Only reactionary horse-gut
bellowers
and avowed catastrophists think
this back-to-simpler times
shit is really in the cards
and then you got the twinkle-toe
losers who
stay up nites
drawing ponies
and feeling abused.
Don't peddle your
dweeb dreams here...
Foot culture and car culture don't contradict
and you're a thumb-headed fool
if you think you are going to
turn around the juggernaut of public roads and private vehicles
with a nifty drawing
and a sense of entitlement.
Pedestrians in the city can't afford to wait for you to catch up
to get a more livable environment.
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Points to consider:
1) Transportation
So much of the work of the
city is transportation, and it can be
easier (remember unki Vlad).
And P.S. -- that includes trucks, and lots of them!
We also need more
and better people-movers,
bike paths and moving walkways above the streets.
Hells bells, raise the whole walking city
one floor up and leave the ground to
vehicular transportation
entirely. And how about some city-run
car rental, while we're at it?
2) Fresh air.
Plants are a vital part of the
machine city.
Ever heard of bio-engineering?
Let's make some plants
that can scrub the air
like ajax, and
suff so much fuckin
oxygen in the city air
you
come
in your pants
every time you take a breath!
Plants are such sophisticated
chemical filters, we'd
be mad to try to replicate
them with ducts, but we got
to make this shit
iron tuff,
so we can't necessarily
leave it up to ungilded
nature...
3) Heating/Cooling
Air-conditioning is awesome,
but give me a break --
individual units that cool
the interior by pumping heat
out the window?
Let's get geothermal.
The ground 50 feet below
the surface runs a pretty
constant
55 degrees F,
(maybe a little
deeper on this
hot little island...)
Let's pump air conditioning
into the streets!
Only the fools will
stay indoors in the summer
if cooling is a public
resource (and btw, fountains
and water are great
coolers -- evaporation
is a cooling process).
4) Rooftop city.
The rooftops
are an ecological
miracle
waiting to happen,
and a public
resource of enormous magnitude.
I'm not talking about
roof-gardens, either ---
that's just a
suburban
lawn, and small
potatoes.
Let's build another
Central Park
on top of the
tenement plain
of the Lower East Side....
5) Commerce
don't make environmentalism
a moral high-hat
commerce is the life-blood
of the poor, too, so
no fainting spells.
Get vendors in the parks!
add second-story stores,
fuk add em on the roof-parks
if there's enuf biz!
Don't give me your
wilting lilly routine...
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Anything is possible
but we gotta
find the prolitariat
and see what they need.
They're the ones
who can get it done --
we get some
neighborhood strikes going
and something might
actually
happen.
Posted by Sam at May 27, 2004 07:31 AM
big red machine!
the big diff
machines bigger then all of uz
interchangeable parts
movin' boxes
thinkin'boxes
thinkin it over
and
movin stuff around
is the game plan
of civilizations
new stage
beast power sucks
draught horses shit
caravan camels spit
field slaves rebel
and as to
aquaducts
canals
walls
tunnels bridges
dams
boring
civil engineering
shit
the romans and the hans
took the static thing
to its best possibles
long long long ago
we got steel-plastic-foam-glass
cause with them we make movers
fluidics optics electricity.........
and now
genoscrambles
build a better maple
fuck build a better ape
build it
and painted bright
then set the fucker in motion
love the red pic
deco with a steel-sabre hardon baby
this ain't babbleloony
its da fewtah
made bright
and da fewtah ain't for da few
now as to
community
prole cat action
maybe a suicidal
rent strike three blocks square
might get some
down-town poly heads
up off the spread sheets
they're nappin' on
who knows
but
gettin real
if ya go that route
make the first light up
in a mixed neighborhood
lookin at the mouth wide open
you need a whole lot a
studental work done
and
get yerself some a dem
" sure i'll take the risk"
bohos
cause they got nothin to lose
but their roaches
prole cats will come outta
the alleys
once they see the fun
is catchin on
