Place Matters

Regional issues: the metropolis of the 21st century "Suburbs can thrive independently of the city center, but if they are part of a more integrated metropolis, they will flourish Deepening economic inequality is basically related to the spatial bias between the central city and suburban metropolitan areas, as well as between richer and more poor areas.The government ' Promote economy and apartheid, encourage enterprises and wealthy people to migrate to the suburbs, effectively restricting the poor and ethnic minorities to the central city and troubled suburbs of the inner ring.

So, what is important, but what do I mean? At the most basic level, I am talking about terrain, the plane of the land. This is very important. Ancient Greece germinated hundreds of different cultures and city states primarily for the hills, rocky terrain created natural obstacles and encouraged this cultural gathering. At the same time, a clear and sharp Athenian light affected philosophers and artists of the most successful urban nation. Is happy. In our language, we are potentially confusing geography and happiness. We talked about "finding happiness" and "finding satisfaction" as if they were places in the Atlas, and if we only have the correct map and correct navigation techniques, the actual location You can visit. Even if you look over the United Nations World Happiness Report, this is the truth. Four of the five happiest countries are Scandinavia (for a while)

The position in the hierarchy is important, but you can decide which hierarchy is more important. Is this our position in a socio-economic ladder? Is this our position? Or is it the position of our virtual community in our church, school, sports league, our online community, even games like World of Warcraft and Second Life? Most of this undeveloped possibility requires less stress and more time because humans have great potential to realize the imagination of creating and shaping communities and changing the world. Thinking and connecting becomes increasingly difficult as our lives get more and more nervous as we go through all the things we have to do. This is taxation on human thought and social bonds. Research shows that the burden of poverty in the mind consumes about 14 IQ points or the amount of spiritual bandwidth required for everything else that is lost in the middle of the night.