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The trepidatious trip report, part four
Week four of my visit to the US has almost finished, so here is part four of my impressions. Previous articles: Preview. Part one. Part two. Part three.
"This . . . Is . . . Suburbia!" - Leonidas in a very different reality
When Goddess created our species, She gifted to us two legs and the ability to use them to walk upright for long distances. This ability and the use of opposable thumbs has allowed our species to do many things. Millennia later, most "civilized" people have deprecated their use of legs to stumbling between the kitchen and the TV room. Goddess should have given the gift of long-distance walking to bears. Yes, the bears would have only gathered more nuts and berries (or pikinik baskets), but the environmental destruction would have been much less.
In recent years, some good and clever people remembered that we have legs and came up with the goal of the 15-minute city. The idea is to design and zone communities so that most residents can, within 15 minutes, walk to work, stores, restaurants, parks, and most everything else they might want or need. It's a revival of how cities used to be before the takeover of automobile culture and the idea that legs are best used to push gas and…
