ICLEI: AGENDA 21 / AGENDA 2030 AT THE LOCAL LEVEL

Over the few months when I hadn't been posting here, I've been noticing something happening in my local community that is obviously a part of the Agenda 21 global initiative (info links below):

• Agenda 21
• Agenda 2030
• Habitat III Urban Agenda
• ICLEI
• Cities-within-cities 
• Habitat III Urban Agenda 
• The reurbanization of cities around the world

Around my immediate area I've seen enormous communities being built, mini cities within the city, with hundreds of apartments within the complex. Many of these take up several city blocks and are "all inclusive" communities, with living, eating, shopping, and entertainment right on the premises. Why are these being built? The most obvious answers are (at least in this area of the country), rapid growth, aging baby boomers who want to downsize, and overall downsizing in general. Go to this link, and watch in its entirety, BUT if you really want to know what it's all about, skip to 2:36!!!

Agenda 21's goal is to make more areas "walkable," or to give them a "walk score." Being walkable is merely code for "sustainable," one of the core tenets of Agenda 21 (remember the Georgia Guidestones?) Sustainable means fewer cars, less polluting gasoline being burned, and best of all, no CO2 emissions! However, it also means...no way of escape. Without cars to use as an escape method, where can one go?

Here are some photos I myself have taken within a 10 mile radius of where I live (click photos to open in a new tab; or if using an extension such as Thumbnail Zoom Plus, you can simply hover over the photo to expand it):

Plano, Texas 

 

Frisco, Texas

Richardson, Texas

Allen, TX

And these are only SOME of the apartment complexes being built, there are many others. As part of the Urban Agenda, hundreds, perhaps thousands, of these types of communities are going up all over the country, in order to have force more people to live in smaller, more condensed areas, making them easier to control in times of "emergency" (such as political unrest, out of control riots, or martial law).