It's about time I started posting on this thing again.
Here's a picture of me from sometime around 1982-1983:
(the girl on the right is Alice, a childhood friend).
And here's one of Miss Gennie:
I was looking at a fascinating website the other day - carfree.com. It's all about city design, specifically how to design cities in such a way that cars are not necessary. The six lobe reference design is particularly interesting, as is the design library which contains pictures of lots of interesting elements of (mostly European) cities designed without cars in mind. While I appreciate the convenience of having a car, I think on the whole I would prefer to live somewhere where having one isn't necessary (especially if no-one else there had one either so that the problems of car noise, pollution and getting run over would be eliminated.) When I was living in Cambridge I never felt the need to have a car and always thought how much nicer it would be if more of the streets were pedestrianized.