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2 comments to "Does Urban Sprawl Make Us Fat?"

  1. Ciarin
    January 24th, 2007 at 9:49 am

    This is about the third website that i have seen quoting this study and yet not one of the articles seem to have made the connection between the fact that the sprawling neighbouhoods would be populated by a different socio-economic group than the one populating the more densly populated neighbourhoods. To my mind this would mean that the study is relating to old news - the only thing that this study is showing is that the less well educated people that have lower incomes live in more densly populated areas and have a poorer diet!!

    Is this actually anything that we dont know already???

  2. Jacob
    January 24th, 2007 at 7:03 pm

    You’re goddamn right it does.

    When all the subdivision neighbourhood roads are twisting into weird shapes, and it’s confusing and inconvenient to walk anywhere (no direct routes), people just get in their car and drive. Hell, my street doesn’t even HAVE sidewalks.

    Also, there’s no “downtowns” in any town built-up in the last 20 years. You can’t stroll down a main street. Instead, you drive to a big box plaza with Wal-Mart or something.


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