I want to consider this video, by the founder of Strong Towns, as a starting point for some analogical thinking. In it, Strong Towns founder Charles Marohn questions why we have designed our towns to accommodate deliveries from large trucks. I found myself struck by the way that siloed thinking leads to decisions that are made without considering the major effects it will have on other aspects of life I was particularly struck by his discussion of the fact that Venice has no cars or trucks because of the canal system; in the comments, one reader shared an example of how garbage is removed from Venice. Anyway, it got me to wondering what decisions in other areas have shaped to a large degree the possibilities available -- or the possibilities that seem availabale, but that might be transcended simply by reconceiving the "rules" we have imposed.