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Oracle of DelphiUK Architects fight obesity epidemic
March 20th 2007 00:22
Architects are being urged to help fight the obesity epidemic in the UK. The Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment is this year promoting measures to improve community mobility around our cities, suburbs, shopping centres and office blocks – so often mere monuments to inactivity and over-consumption. "Far too much housing is built on a cul-de-sac format with a huge great wall around it and one entrance in and out," says Tim Townshend, a Newcastle academic. "It's for motor traffic, with high-speed distributor roads around the edge of the compound.
Usually these places have no local shops or facilities … Children play indoors or they're taken by car to friends' homes, where they play indoors.” Meanwhile, London’s inner-city boroughs are replacing former mining towns as Britain’s sickest areas, according to a report by market intelligence firm CACI. “The serious illness focused on within the report are, to a large extent, caused by lifestyle choices,” claimed Ian Thurman, the firm’s location analysis chief. Photograph: Erwin Wurm, Fat House, 2003. Source: Guardian
Usually these places have no local shops or facilities … Children play indoors or they're taken by car to friends' homes, where they play indoors.” Meanwhile, London’s inner-city boroughs are replacing former mining towns as Britain’s sickest areas, according to a report by market intelligence firm CACI. “The serious illness focused on within the report are, to a large extent, caused by lifestyle choices,” claimed Ian Thurman, the firm’s location analysis chief. Photograph: Erwin Wurm, Fat House, 2003. Source: Guardian
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