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To: LPS5 who wrote (424)	1/6/2003 9:10:16 AM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) of 2534

Not really, more to do with how you mix your residential and shopping areas to encourage foot traffic and bike traffic. Take the typical string of strip malls on a large suburban road. Most likely you will drive to each store you need to visit then get in your car and drive to the next one. Find a way to make shopping areas knitted together like small villages instead of endless strips of sterile crap. Spread out those little centers so people could actually - gasp!!!!!!! - walk to them from their homes, walk around to a variety of stores then walk home. Create some bike lanes so people could actually consider using a bicycle for local errands instead of a car. Get people off their butts and on their feet or onto a bike seat. And forget about the regular shopping mall concept - it's just an excuse to drive to another store and walk a few feet to hang around and consume stuff you don't need. (FWIW, I have just described most of the country I live in now, the Netherlands. Putting aside their tax system, their urban planning style is sheer heaven most of the time. It could easily be reproduced in selected pockets in the US if city planners could ever change their SUV-fueled mindsets.)

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