Philobiblon

I got into trouble last time I got into this, but nontheless I’m going to applaud a piece in today’s Guardian urging architects to plan to encourage, rather than discourage exercise.

“Using the stairs is not seen as normal,” says Amelia Lake, a research fellow who works with Townshend. “In most [new] buildings it’s very difficult to find a staircase. The focal point when you enter tends to be the lift. In certain buildings, you’ll even find that using the stairs will set off the fire alarm.”

And it provides some stats on the well-known fact of how sprawling suburbs encourage slobbish, car-filled lives.