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...unplanned opportunities." Curitiba's mayor, Jaime Lerner, bases his whole approach to urban planning on this idea. "If life is the art of encounter, then the city is the setting for encounter," he says. Curitiba has multiplied the chances for encounters by providing its citizens with an abundance of pedestrian walks and parks. Even the bus terminals make cozy and comfortable meeting places. The mayor's public housing program mixes both low- and middle-income people in a largely successful effort to discourage ghettos...
Battle, who rings his bell every day from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., said that the average pedestrian is much more friendly and giving nowadays. He attributed the change to "Christmas cheer...
Though most of the watches are in the more pedestrian price range of $40 to $80, the store does have some high-priced collectibles on display "just for sizzle," said Handa, who also owns the neighboring Alpha Omega Jewelers...
Jesuit Joseph Fessio, publisher of Ignatius Press and Catholic World Report, remarks that fellow conservatives have worried for years about "revisionist pressure groups operating on the new English translation for their own ends." When the Vatican first gave permission in 1963, parishes clamored for rituals in English. Its pedestrian style aside, the current English Mass was prepared before liturgists began to champion gender-inclusive language...
...families change, so will the look of new communities. Is this the suburb of the future? On Bainbridge Island, Washington, 30 families dwell in a five-acre pedestrian village where doors are seldom locked, townspeople share cooking duties and even the children have their own rule-making committee. Based on an idea pioneered in Scandinavia, the Winslow CoHousing Group is a kind of commune gone condo that tries to merge the best elements of two very different styles of community life: the efficiency and fellowship of a collective with the privacy and equity of home ownership...