What the hell is a subdivision?

So, hanging on posts and in big windows around Ithaca are announcements for town meetings regarding the creation of 'subdivisions,' which in this case is a big square brick/aluminum downtown building that will be divided into privately owned spaces for operating businesses and offices and retail locations. It turns out that you can actually go and object, discuss, suggest. The subdivision in question is a new building across the street from the Holiday Inn, so I don't really have much of a bone to pick, however, I'm going to keep my eyes peeled for more sinister subdivisions from now on. Did you know that they even met publicly to decide land usage? How come nobody told me this? As far as I'm concerned, governance is at least 50% a matter of geography and architecture, and it's time to pay attention. This could prove more important than voting in the next century.

Always with an eye to utopia and dystopia and the concrete imagination,
Yours,
The lyrical Paul Buchholz