“Save The Planet: Live In a City”

Here in Walkable Eastwood, we’ve known for about 150 years that it’s easy and quick to get from here to just about any place in the Syracuse metropolitan area. We have the lush green of a suburban setting but the proximity to all the necessities and many of the joys of life. This “village within the city” was developed at a time when there was no gasoline and no cars. Just feet and public transportation, unless you happened to have a horse. This is old urbanism at its finest, residential and business development on a human scale.

Now that gasoline is pricing the use of our cars nearly into the luxury zone, living here is looking smarter than ever. An article in the Opinion section of last Sunday’s Post-Standard is not only in hearty agreement with this, it elegantly explains just what we’ve been asserting here all along at Walkable Eastwood: “Discarded and ignored in the second half of the 20th century, our green, gas-saving and money-saving older cities may well be our salvation in the first half of the 21st.”