As an #urbanist, who has spent the best years of my life living in cities and town centers, and especially as someone who has been consciously #CarFree for 5 years, now, I shop the way people in cities shop: on a more or less daily basis.

No SUV with a month's worth of groceries for me, just a #bicycle with two panniers and two baskets.

Between other tasks, and using the suggested speed-reading model, 5 chapters.

The impression so far is: firmly embedded in the 1960s-1970s USIan pop culture/worldview, the author tries to impart the sound of one hand clapping.

It might be summed as: building - a home, a village, a community - has a best-practice, which is organic and contextual patterns.

A lovely example of USian rococo in writing; complete with *trompe-l'œil* frescoes.

a little too much 'LDS' in the proto-#urbanist for me.

And it's not like when I was living in Seattle, and I could just pop by the Books Kinokuniya branch attached to the Uwajimaya grocery store.

Her book was published by Kadokawa, so it's not like it's some obscure indie publisher, this is the big leagues.

Ask me why I an an #urbanist, and why I want my rural #Vermont town to be more cosmopolitan.