[lit-ideas] Geary's Ideal City
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 13:44:39 EST
Geary works in air-conditioning. I was wondering how ill-designed cities
(and the world, at large, or generally) is designed (cfr. 'global warning').
Take New York: snow in winter (you need heating system), Indian summer in
the summer -- you need air conditioning.
Geary objects to the implicature, 'air conditioning' to mean "cold".
"Surely if you ask if someone has air-conditioning in his house, the entailment
should entail heating, too, but this is practically always cancelled".
In general, all the Caribbean and Equatorian countries are a bother to live
in since they don't have the four seasons, just the rainy season, and the
hot season. Strictly, these people have evolved to live without air
conditioning, I believe.
----- Geary will perhaps think that Rome is the ideal city. You don't need
air-conditioning in the summer or heating in the winter.
The history of air-conditioning-cold postdates the history of heating.
People (Men) have always recoursed to 'fire' as a way to heat their houses. On
the other hand, the first air-conditioning-cold was invented in England (or
India, I'm not clear about this).
Etc.
Speranza
--- Bordighera
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