by Michael Sorkin
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he planet has reached a weird
moment: over weight people now
outnumber those who are malnourished.
Obesity, particularly among children, has
reached epidemic proportions in the
U. S., as has diabetes. And the problem is
spreading around the globe, a plague correlated not simply with increased prosperity but with the forms of our
accelerating urbanization.
This doesn’t necessarily
mean that “
over-devel-opment” has superced-ed underdevelopment as
a global issue, but it suggests
that global inequality is growing
in newly perverse ways.
Change, though, is possible. In the U. S.
and throughout the Americas, this will
require not simply dramatic adjustments
in diet and lifestyle but also urban planning that focuses on the design of new
transportation and service networks,
on careful management of density,
on reinforcing neighborhoods, on
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