The architectural, design, landscape design and decorating communities of the United States, indeed, those
of every country, serve the commonwealth when they
champion built and decorated schemes that foster cities,
suburbs and utopias that are situated among us, free of
walls and security checkpoints.
Exchanges and ideas that might very well germinate as a
result of the broad interaction of everyone could stimulate
the economy and contribute to dispelling the sense that
some domestic groups are characterized as the other because of security fences. During a period in global history
when in many instances the sense of other is ebbing, as
much as in some quarters that very change is generating
fear, countries, nations, religions and regions cannot allow the sense or fear of other to foment artificial barriers
in any given domestic society.
Leaders must come out from behind these walls and, together with those leaders still enmeshed in the urban fabric, they must steadfastly work for the common good.
Then utopia will be everywhere, not nowhere.
Christopher
HYLAND
Hyland
