by: Jose David Mendez
Dan Buettner’s theory is that to improve public health, public spaces have to change.
Ventura Boulevard, in Los Angeles’s Woodland Hills neighborhood for instance, is loaded with cars that are often traveling to or from the nearby 101 or 405 freeways.
“You step outside, you’re going to hear this roar of motors, you’re going to smell exhaust, and no one wants to sit out there — look, no one is out there,” Buettner said during a recent interview, looking out to the street from a cafe. “But you slow traffic down, it purrs by and you take cars off the street.”
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