Comments on: Why Your City Planner Is Making You Fat http://brainblogger.com/2008/07/26/why-your-city-planner-is-making-you-fat/ Topics from multidimensional biopsychosocial perspectives. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:07:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Personal Plug http://brainblogger.com/2008/07/26/why-your-city-planner-is-making-you-fat/comment-page-1/#comment-321730 Personal Plug Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:22:01 +0000 http://brainblogger.com/?p=1124#comment-321730 <strong>Health & Fitness Articles...</strong> Outsource the Boring Blog Carnival Submission Process - Explode Your Search Engine Rankings & Triple Your Traffic. Try my Blog Carnival Submission Service FREE for 30 days. Alex Smith presents Top 7 Ways to Prevent Thieves from Ever Victimiz... Health & Fitness Articles…

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]]> By: Kate http://brainblogger.com/2008/07/26/why-your-city-planner-is-making-you-fat/comment-page-1/#comment-283205 Kate Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:34:52 +0000 http://brainblogger.com/?p=1124#comment-283205 You have hit the tip of the iceberg. We have become a society of convenience. We want everything 'just blocks away'. But as you noted the space needed for the behemoths is becoming more scarce, so our intention of having something close only pushes it away. I recently interviewed a pair of architects - one designs buildings, the other infrastructure. Both are 'green-minded'. They believe that city planners need to be thinking about sustainability first and convenience second. Sustainable can be as simple as reusing a building or space. Or it can mean, if you insist on creating a new subdivision, you do so with the mind of 'creating' a neighborhood. Basically that means putting up an old-fashioned small town in the middles of suburbia. You build homes within walking distance of the stores you are building. And rather than making parking be the first feature at the front door, walking paths sweep throughout the area for a pedestrian friendly development. Personally, I am about a modified take on the Portland plan. They have drawn a giant circle around the city and told developers they can build and rebuild within that line. Until everything inside the line has been reused or the land parsed out, there will be no development outside of it. That has allowed the city to become about the bicycle and the bus. They walk a lot too. You don't hear about Portland being one of the fattest city's in the country. So yes, your points are quite valid. I would love to see an even more in depth study from you regarding this. I really enjoy learning how others are dealing with these issues. You have hit the tip of the iceberg. We have become a society of convenience. We want everything ‘just blocks away’. But as you noted the space needed for the behemoths is becoming more scarce, so our intention of having something close only pushes it away.

I recently interviewed a pair of architects - one designs buildings, the other infrastructure. Both are ‘green-minded’. They believe that city planners need to be thinking about sustainability first and convenience second. Sustainable can be as simple as reusing a building or space. Or it can mean, if you insist on creating a new subdivision, you do so with the mind of ‘creating’ a neighborhood.

Basically that means putting up an old-fashioned small town in the middles of suburbia. You build homes within walking distance of the stores you are building. And rather than making parking be the first feature at the front door, walking paths sweep throughout the area for a pedestrian friendly development.

Personally, I am about a modified take on the Portland plan. They have drawn a giant circle around the city and told developers they can build and rebuild within that line. Until everything inside the line has been reused or the land parsed out, there will be no development outside of it. That has allowed the city to become about the bicycle and the bus. They walk a lot too. You don’t hear about Portland being one of the fattest city’s in the country.

So yes, your points are quite valid. I would love to see an even more in depth study from you regarding this. I really enjoy learning how others are dealing with these issues.

]]> By: Where You Live - Is It Making You Fat? | Online Weight Loss http://brainblogger.com/2008/07/26/why-your-city-planner-is-making-you-fat/comment-page-1/#comment-282222 Where You Live - Is It Making You Fat? | Online Weight Loss Mon, 11 Aug 2008 05:06:29 +0000 http://brainblogger.com/?p=1124#comment-282222 [...] A reader who responded to my blog Children, Fast Food, as well as Obesity lead me to a blog Why Your City Planner Is Making We Fat . It focused upon how selling is right away receiving place during incomparable bondage as well as [...] [...] A reader who responded to my blog Children, Fast Food, as well as Obesity lead me to a blog Why Your City Planner Is Making We Fat . It focused upon how selling is right away receiving place during incomparable bondage as well as [...]

]]> By: Dana Lilienthal, MS, RD http://brainblogger.com/2008/07/26/why-your-city-planner-is-making-you-fat/comment-page-1/#comment-281953 Dana Lilienthal, MS, RD Sun, 10 Aug 2008 13:20:55 +0000 http://brainblogger.com/?p=1124#comment-281953 Who would have thought that our neighborhood could make us fat - but when you take a closer look at all the new construction and developments being built it really does seem to be true. I recently read a blog on Prevention.com that also addresses this issue - newer neighborhoods are making people fat. I tend to believe that these developers are creating neighborhoods with conveniences of their residents, but are not realizing that these conveniences can be damaging. Who would have thought that our neighborhood could make us fat - but when you take a closer look at all the new construction and developments being built it really does seem to be true. I recently read a blog on Prevention.com that also addresses this issue - newer neighborhoods are making people fat. I tend to believe that these developers are creating neighborhoods with conveniences of their residents, but are not
realizing that these conveniences can be damaging.

]]> By: Dr. Sharma http://brainblogger.com/2008/07/26/why-your-city-planner-is-making-you-fat/comment-page-1/#comment-281355 Dr. Sharma Sat, 09 Aug 2008 01:04:29 +0000 http://brainblogger.com/?p=1124#comment-281355 Well said. No question, our build environment is a huge issue in reducing our mobility. An even broader perspective is offered by thinking of the obesity epidemic in relationship to global warming. As I blogged before: <a href="http://www.drsharma.ca/is-reducing-global-warming-the-key-to-preventing-obesity.html" rel="nofollow">the key to solving one of these issues is solving the other</a>. AMS Well said. No question, our build environment is a huge issue in reducing our mobility. An even broader perspective is offered by thinking of the obesity epidemic in relationship to global warming.
As I blogged before: the key to solving one of these issues is solving the other.
AMS

]]> By: Heidi http://brainblogger.com/2008/07/26/why-your-city-planner-is-making-you-fat/comment-page-1/#comment-271753 Heidi Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:30:00 +0000 http://brainblogger.com/?p=1124#comment-271753 I curse you sprawl! You take away my sidewalks, my ability to connect to my community face-to-face, and you eliminate the local, small business owner who knows me and force me to buy at places with inferior sales staff. I curse you sprawl! You take away my sidewalks, my ability to connect to my community face-to-face, and you eliminate the local, small business owner who knows me and force me to buy at places with inferior sales staff.

]]> By: Jason http://brainblogger.com/2008/07/26/why-your-city-planner-is-making-you-fat/comment-page-1/#comment-269694 Jason Sun, 27 Jul 2008 12:14:01 +0000 http://brainblogger.com/?p=1124#comment-269694 Very interesting. This indicates that the problem is more long-term than just lack of diet and exercise. Once a city or neighborhood is planned, it sets the strategic direction for that town and it is hard to deviate from it. If the trend is for "outskirt" consolidated shopping centers, then this is going to be the reality. Very interesting. This indicates that the problem is more long-term than just lack of diet and exercise. Once a city or neighborhood is planned, it sets the strategic direction for that town and it is hard to deviate from it. If the trend is for “outskirt” consolidated shopping centers, then this is going to be the reality.

]]> By: McCain Healthcare Policy Scam Spam « Home of the Brave http://brainblogger.com/2008/07/26/why-your-city-planner-is-making-you-fat/comment-page-1/#comment-268699 McCain Healthcare Policy Scam Spam « Home of the Brave Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:22:05 +0000 http://brainblogger.com/?p=1124#comment-268699 [...] unable to live in affordable communities which provide walking-accessible essential goods and [...] [...] unable to live in affordable communities which provide walking-accessible essential goods and [...]

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