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The Tuesday Lunch Series welcomes Jonathan Maskit, assistant professor of philosophy, presenting “The Aesthetics of Sustainable Living.”
Public space and forms of transit can be organized in myriad ways. Different forms of transit and spatial organization make possible different forms of social interaction and thus different forms of life. Our current dominant form of spatial organization, based on widely dispersed buildings connected by roadways, both fosters a less social form of life and more energy consumption than denser forms of spatial organization. Rather than seeing global warming as a threat to a clearly superior form of life, we might thus welcome it as an opportunity to re-think how best to organize space, transit, and the tempo of our lives in order both to make those lives more humanely fulfilling and less energy intensive.