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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Google Should Think Triadically

Google invented a driver free car But not a car free community Google would do much better than that By starting to think triadically 



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The Occupy agenda is right here

ShortFormContent at Blogger: At times, horizontalism can feel like utopian theatre.

You see I have merely suggested the parameters. All depends on people deciding what they want. But it does involve the most tactile reality. What we called houses. What we called transportation. What we called plumbing. What we called education. Occupy knows with me that we need to build an entirely new world. That we will build such. All I am doing is stating the obvious. That it be car free where we are living. That it be open to anyone and affordable to all. That it be chosen. That it be universal. Of course the fact that this solves global warming is incidental. I have reached my shortform limit.


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Car Free Is The Future

Creating a 'Car-Free' Community - NYTimes.com: "In a new suburban district of Freiburg, Germany that discourages driving — a “car-reduced” community called Vauban — there are only two places to park a car, and both are at the edge of the development. As I note in my story in Tuesday’s New York Times, 70 percent of Vauban’s families do not own cars, and 57 percent sold a car to move there."

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Cars Have No Place within an Integral Community

We can have no move to change we can believe in 

until the deleterious dictatorship of the automobile is ended 

Happily it can be ended from place to place 

by simply building new car-free communities 

or adapting existing neighborhoods 

None of the benefits to children compare 

with having a settlement where you can 

walk out the front and be on a promenade 

and not get run down by a car 

And have a whole world within walking distance

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Beyond Today's Stratified Society and its Sprawl Design

What Does Lego Have to Do with the Future of Society?, Page 2 of 4 - Associated Content from Yahoo! - associatedcontent.com: Our biggest social problem is that we are captives of the current stratified design of everything. In my proposed urban-like settlements, you live there because you want to. If you want diversity, go for it. If you want an interest group, go for it. And so on and so forth. A zillion points of light as it were. Communities of 5-10,000 linked by public transit, cars on the outside not all over as now.


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Food and Cooking in Tomorrow's Cyber Cities

What Does Lego Have to Do with the Future of Society?, Page 2 of 4 - Associated Content from Yahoo! - associatedcontent.com: "The cost of buying take-out food is about equal to the cost of buying and preparing food from scratch in a kitchen, especially if the family unit grows smaller. In the customized mix of my lego-blocks, I could see dwellings with nothing but a cooling unit and a small heating unit for food. I can also see dwellings with a Julia Child-worthy cooking area. There might be communal dining, because neighborhoods would be vastly more integrated in my proposed urban-like communities than they are in today's sprawl."


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The Coming Growth of Cyber Cities Replacing Sprawl

What Does Lego Have to Do with the Future of Society?, Page 2 of 4 - Associated Content from Yahoo! - associatedcontent.com: "I envision he units (living spaces) of new urban communities to be mass-produced, replacing our auto industry. I see them as lego-like cubes one can buy or lease just like cars. And move from place to place or resell. Just like cars. I am trying to create a leap-frog to a new world that will actually get the integral job done on the ground. Instead of turning it into an expensive New Age course for the elite."

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Lego-like Modular Construction

What Does Lego Have to Do with the Future of Society? - Associated Content from Yahoo! - associatedcontent.com: "In essence, the elements of a dwelling in my notion would be easily placed, easily moved, easily tied in to other elements. They would be the 'lego blocks' of human settlement. They would be strong. They would have built in ledges and storage areas that would otherwise require all manner of micro-work on-site in a custom built home."

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The Primacy of One's Own Room

What Does Lego Have to Do with the Future of Society? - Associated Content from Yahoo! - associatedcontent.com: "The basic unit of design for any community is one's own room. I see this as meeting the need of individuals for space. One's own room could be small if it was merely an office sort of thing. If one lived alone. It could encompass one's whole private existence. In family settings, a child's own room could be quite small, mainly a place to sleep. But such spaces could be tied to a common play area. In essence, the elements of a dwelling in my notion would be easily placed, easily moved, easily tied in to other elements."

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We should be able to change living arrangements as easily as we change cars

What Does Lego Have to Do with the Future of Society? - Associated Content from Yahoo! - associatedcontent.com: "Our society is a melange of differing relational units and no one can anticipate the shape or composition of a family or communal living of the future. The clear need in a human settlement is the capacity to freely create and change living arrangements."

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We'll get past oil whether we want to or not

A Thought Starter on the Creation of Car-free Communities for the 21st Century http://ping.fm/wchM5

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10 Industries That Don't Yet Exist

Portaschool design and construction, jobs for teachers, instructors and cyber-trainers to create a new education system that is local and spread out in car-free communities, cyber-kiosks for delivery based businesses see, consult and purchase ditto, ecomatrix for 5-10k providing the skeleton for mass-produced spaces for work and residence ditto, modular public community entertainment centers ditto, modular lego-like elements for creation of spaces ditto, car free community development companies, one to one money-free banking - I've stopped counting. You get the idea.

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