The sidewalk-less, shoulder-less route to school in Franklin, Wisconsin. The reason very few kids are free to walk to school even if they live 1000 yards away.
KunstlerCast #10: Children of the Burbs:
Is raising children in suburbia a form of child abuse? What happens to developing people when public space is the berm between the Wal-Mart and the K-Mart? When school looks like a maximum security "facility"? When parents are chauffeurs? James Howard Kunstler addresses these topics and speaks of his own experiences growing up in the suburbs of Long Island and in Manhattan.
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