CAR FREE - Why Health Requires Car Free Communities

Continuing the drafting of the forthcoming Kindle book CAR FREE 71 Aphorisms
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Public health will improve if retrograde forces do not hamper current efforts to improve it But as long as the car and highway culture rules we will have a society that tends toward the obese and indolent Car free communities would largely eliminate both obesity and indolence Car free communities would enable travel everywhere by foot For most walking unimpeded with no traffic to deal with is a pleasure For those who wish to prolong life it approaches the necessary A half hour walk daily is the new apple a day
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I envision communities on four levels in an eco-sufficient structure somewhat like a stadium It would contain all elements of a community residences workplaces shops businesses piazzas squares multiple kiosks Life would be structured to make the outside as enjoyable as one's own private spaces One could walk unimpeded for miles along interesting byways teeming with life but not over-crowded There would be places to sit and rest or recreate every 300 feet It would be a walkers' paradise And all because in a single square mile of God's earth cars if needed at all would be relegated to the periphery This is but one of the public health ramifications of living car free

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"Sto Perigiali" One of the Surpassingly Best Tunes Theodorakis Has Written

A Setting for a Poem "Denial" Beloved by the Greek People by the Nobel Prize Winning Poet Giorgos Seferis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhk0ckaCxDI
The remarkable video at the link above is of a performance of "Sto perigiali" Mario Frangoulis and Mikis Theodorakis in 2001.

Frangoulis and Theodorakis are joined by musicians, including two bouzouki players, and a very large audience that is completely familiar with the words. The audience joins in at Frangoulis' prompt.

This is my very favorite Theodorakis melody. Those who know Theodorakis only for his "Zorba" music are in for a treat. When I was in Athens in 1966, for a short period of study with Constantinos Doxiadis, I knew nothing of Theodorakis. But about five years later, my friend Irene Vassos sang "Sto perigiali" to us. I have never gotten the tune out of my mind.

Later, when Irene joined our group to form a travelling company performing "New Rain", I learned to pick out a …

Stephen C. Rose Bio

Stephen C. Rose (1936-) was born in New York City and raised there. He currently lives there. He was educated at Trinity, Exeter, Williams and Union Theological Seminary. He served in the Student Interracial Ministry in Nashville. He founded and edited the prize-winning Renewal Magazine in Chicago and studied with C. A. Doxiadis in Athens. His first books "The Grass Roots Church" and "Who's Killing The Church" established him as a prominent critic of American Protestantism and American religion. He was and remains a civil rights activist. He has interviewed and done in depth pieces on Saul Alinsky and Martin Luther King, Jr. He won awards for editorial courage and for two documentary films. He has written and published many songs and musical works including "We Are All Americans". During the late 90s and early 2000s he worked for UN agencies, most recently editing CHOICES Magazine at UNDP. Since 2000 he has written several books for distribution via K…

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