Imagine living in the inner city there is silence. Not the deadly silence one may imagine after an atomic bomb. No, it is the cheerful silence of a car-free-inner-city. You awake, breath deep and go to the window. Below you see school kids walking along the vegetable fields where before cars were passing. Their chatter drowns the singing of the birds. So you withdraw to have coffee and check your mails.
Later you consult the vegetable stand at the corner, viewing the newest products and buying some eggs as well. Kiddy corner you purchase some local lamm and while paying notice a rider on the sand track. As one of the many who, taking up the offer to participate in a horse-back-to-transport experiment, he has completed instructions...
for physiologically correct riding in the fit-for-horses place near the parc. You see him almost daily, that is of course only if he chooses this and not one of the other paths to get to his destination downtown or home. You return to your apartment and, while listening to your newest music, work on-line for an association that helps reconnect man to the land. Later...
Conclusion
Here now, dear reader, I wish to leave you. Hoping that you will think on and come to the same conclusion I came to. That, as far out as this idea may seem at first, it is workable and may be the only chance to save and rejuvinate the world's inner cities. In a time of advanced technology there is no problem to organise the transport of citizens and good, to farm inner-city land, to set-up new inner city agricultural business, to reincorporate the horse along side a multitude of other human-power types of transport, to recultivate a life-style that for many may appear to have disappeared for good...
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