COVID turned the question where we live and where we work upside down. Now we work at home and "live" in business districts that used to be exclusively devoted to work.
I have a quibble regarding this statement: " Suburbs were an upper-class luxury until after World War II, when the mass production of housing and federal financing of mortgages made single-family suburban life possible for most people — at least for most white people."
This ignores the much earlier expansion of "trolley car" or "street car" neighborhoods. I live in a working-class bungalow build in 1926 in the North Berkeley/Albany area. My house is two-bedroom, one-bathroom, 1,100 square-foot stucco box (after a laundry room addition). The street cars used to run across the Bay Bridge, allowing for the first pre-WWII wave of suburbanization.
I used to think that photographers needed to know how to use manual settings on a camera, but the next generation probably doesn't. So while I hear the "Zoom can't give you body language cues and connections" argument often from boomers, I wonder if millennials and gen Z zoomers, would even recognize body language if their entire experience is on-screen. Human connection may not matter to a generation that only connects by manipulating glass.
I have a quibble regarding this statement: " Suburbs were an upper-class luxury until after World War II, when the mass production of housing and federal financing of mortgages made single-family suburban life possible for most people — at least for most white people."
This ignores the much earlier expansion of "trolley car" or "street car" neighborhoods. I live in a working-class bungalow build in 1926 in the North Berkeley/Albany area. My house is two-bedroom, one-bathroom, 1,100 square-foot stucco box (after a laundry room addition). The street cars used to run across the Bay Bridge, allowing for the first pre-WWII wave of suburbanization.
I used to think that photographers needed to know how to use manual settings on a camera, but the next generation probably doesn't. So while I hear the "Zoom can't give you body language cues and connections" argument often from boomers, I wonder if millennials and gen Z zoomers, would even recognize body language if their entire experience is on-screen. Human connection may not matter to a generation that only connects by manipulating glass.
I agree but city have their own distict vibe know. I a new dawn for cities to restructure themselves as places not just white collar factories.