Study: Living in the Suburbs Can Make You Sick

Yahoo! News - Study: Living in the Suburbs Can Make You Sick

This study "defined sprawling suburban areas as those with poorly connected streets such as cul-de-sacs, separated areas for schools, housing and shops and a lower population density." Wow, does that sound familiar. It found (surprise!) that people in those areas had poorer overall health because of greater rates of obesity. Lack of exercise, don'cha know.

Would that it were easy to just "build cities where people feel comfortable walking and are not so dependent on cars." Makes me want to go into civil engineering. Or somehow convince all the civil engineering programs in American universities to teach this philosophy to their incoming students, so maybe in 50 or a hundred years...