Our inherently isolating automobile-scaled environments will always be a stressful, mental illness-inducing lifestyle. Humans are built for complete walking-dis

Our inherently isolating automobile-scaled environments will always be a stressful, mental illness-inducing lifestyle. Humans are built for complete walking-distance communities, not subdivisions and collector roads. People cling to city centers because they are the only places it is legal to build the kind of pedestrian-scale density we would have recognized as home through most of human history. I found this piece on "Sabbath as alarm" [0] through Slate Star Codex, and it resonated for me: >One more useful attribute of the Jewish Sabbath is the extent to which its rigid rules generate friction in emergency situations. If your community center is not within walking distance, if there is not enough slack in your schedule to prep things a day in advance, or you are too poor to go a day without work, or too locally isolated to last a day without broadcast entertainment, then things are not okay. [0] http://benjaminrosshoffman.com/sabbath-hard-and-go-home/#Sabbath_as_alarm http://benjaminrosshoffman.com/sabbath-hard-and-go-home/#Sab...