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To: Dale Baker who wrote (425)1/6/2003 9:26:51 AM
From: LPS5  Read Replies (1) of 2534
 
I understand exactly what you're saying.

For better or worse, I think that urban planning in many places in the United States reflects a hypercapitalist ideal of maximizing both capacity for throughflow and ease of consumption, thereby 'necessitating' short walking distances to and between points of sale. And, with Americans getting increasingly unfit, that trend looks set to continue before a backlash of fitness (a la the early 1980s explosion of Spandex-driven aerobics) sets in: case in point, I've already seen, over in Long Island and in New Jersey, shopping malls with airport-styled conveyor belts. No walking required.

Is there a market solution beyond either futuristic, high-end wheelchairs and mobile devices at one end of the problem and health-food stores/restaurants and gyms at the other?

LPS5
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