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Monday, September 10, 2007

Health and Architecture

Hi anonymous, thank you for commenting. Have you read about the town in Florida called Celebration? It's designed to encourage walking to do errands and visit neighbors, for kids to ride their bikes everywhere independently...I'd love to have architecture and design support health. For example, I was thinking once, if children designed airports, the waiting spaces would have ladders to climb to get to the chairs, slides to go down to the baggage claim, etc. We could easily have little rock walls to climb on while we're waiting at the supermarket, wouldn't that be as fun as reading the magazines? and we could have steps to go up and down on while filling the tank with gas (I actually do this already), chin-up bars on the street corners....

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

To learn more about Celebration, Florida, Catherine Collins and Douglas Frantz, two journalists, wrote a book about their experience living their for one year with their two children. They have unique insight into the wonderful and not-so-wonderful aspects of living in this Disney created "American hybrid" community. It's called, Celebration, Usa: Living in Disney's Brave New Town.

3:17 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

To learn more about Celebration, Florida, Catherine Collins and Douglas Frantz, two journalists, wrote a book about their experience living there for one year with their two children. They have unique insight into the wonderful and not-so-wonderful aspects of living in this Disney created "American hybrid" community. It's called, Celebration, Usa: Living in Disney's Brave New Town.

3:18 PM  

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