Schleifer

First. I also dont remember the name of this inventor but i know that he has killed himseld after he heard that Bill Gates has gained his first Billion. Bill Gates hasn't done anything but he has more than 50 billion dollars. Fair? Even the hardest capitalist has to admit that this seems to be a little bit unlogical. Second: I can only agree. I agree to a lot of things from diferent political systems but i'm not a fan of radical systems like capitalism or communism. Third: There are enourmous differences between marxism socialism communism and the bolshewik system. There has never been a marxism. Never! What Marx has written was miles away of bolshewism. The communisticdiktatures have caused millions of victims. I have lost nearly my whole family because they faught for their freedom. But it was not the communism that has caused this victims. It was the soviet regime that was guilty. I am very proud that you have called me a Leninist. Lenin was a man who has seen the problems of the bolshewik system and tried to delete them. Fourth: I can only agree with you. But i think that people should have more duties than they have today. The fact that in some countries rich pewople dont have to support people in bad situation. Because you live in Portugal you should agree with me. The few big industrial and rich nations in europe support poor countries. Fifth: I#m sorry. What do you mean?

I'm really interested where you all from because to me it seems always that americans enjoy their centralized system and the europeans prefer the urbanistic solution. Also it seems to me that more capitalistic oriented people like the american way. (unnessessary to say) The more left-touched people enjoy the idea of an homogen mixed up culture. I'm from germany and vote for the greens and the reds. It's funny that we don't call our partys with their names. Capitalists are black, liberals are yellow, racists are brown (we dont have such a party) socialists.... and the greens dont need any explanaition.

I feel sorry for you because Adam Smth deems to be your twin. He was the most important supporter an one of the first inventors of capitalism. Everywhere in the world you can find poor people living together with the rich ones. And imagine: They are working. Strange what? Im from an city where the government has build social apartments for poor people in the best and most expensive neighborhoods. Everyone is able to buy a flat in the downtown. We are today one of the economical most strenght and flexible cities in europe. we are less than 100000 people but we are producing more than 2.5 million cars and have the most effective and expansive science centres for cars. My community tries to integrate people whereas yours seems to divide people in categories. Who deserves a good life and who not just by looking at wheir cash.

It is absolutely unlogical that economy would collaps if everybody could buy a flat in the downtown. There is no other country than the US which has this high rents in the city-centre. Your opinion seems to be as old sa it's inventor Adam Smith. 280 years old and has been replaced hundrets of years ago by mor logical and better working economy theories.

Not all workingplaces are in the industrial sector. If someone would live next door to a bureau or a workshop he wouldnt turn: If they would life near a big chemical industry this would look different. But its not possible to build new-urbanism settlements around factories with thousands of workers. In big industrial nations most workinplaces are in companies with 50-300 workers. So you can use new urbanism on 75% of all industry- and bussiness- companies without the negative side effects of montane industry.

I would prefer new urbanism. But i'mfrom an city where 110.000 people work in just one factory. In my region every city is producind steel cars big trucks paper etc.. Sometimes you have to use the sprawl method. My city (Wolfsburg in Germany) has been foundet in the WWII so everything is planed and everxthing deals with this factory. Because we had been very succesful in producing cars (and we still are) the city had grown very fast in the last 50 years. Here are big settlements made of concrete in which only the workers from other countries live and suburbs for the more european population. This has led to an very bad situation. The russians had lived in their own parts of the city. The Germans heve their parts and the polish people have also their own. Thats wouldnt be so bad if there wouldnt be just one point: The russians are speaking russianthe germans german and so on... For me this is an very important point for urbanism. A mix of all cultures is an plus for every city. In the last years a lot of things have changed. more thann 20000 workplaces have moved from the scientific facillities in the factory to new commercial parks in the subburbs. The downtown has been cleaned of all traffic. In the better suburbs the state has build big social buildings. They content apartments for imigratet people and workplaces for some of them. The city has startet to build an high-speed-railway-system. It will connect all cities with an population of more than 25000 people. Every ten minutes you have a train to 8 cities in a radius of 50 kilometers and you reach them much faster than with the car. And these trains don't stop at the railway station. They are driving straight to the city's centre and to all the commercial and industrial zones in south-east-lower-saxony. More than 60% of all workers are driving with public transport systems. I don't know if everything i have said is in the right place in this tread but i think everyone should use mass-transport or walk on feet. Today our region is under the ten top regions of europe in the categories flexability economical future and ecological protecture. It's really irony that in a city that produces more than 2.5 mio cars per year people hate driving them.