The front page of today’s WaPo features “Getting Lost in the Great Indoors: Many Adults Worry About Children Losing Touch With Nature” by Donna St. George. It is enough to make you cry.
It should make a lot of BaconsRebellion bloggers wince. All those champions of dysfunctional Autonomobile driven settlement patterns who claim they are investing in big lots for the kids and freedom…
As we point out in our December 2003 column (same title as this post) it is the cumulative impact of all those big, unused lots covered with grass that result in long drives to work, to services and to all the “organized activities” that now fill children’s lives.
Two of the first five “child-friendly assets” we list for places to raise children address the concerns of those quoted in the WaPo article.
Now why cannot WaPo hire editors who understand human settlement patterns and the underlying cause of all these front-page stories?
EMR
