ebbsfleet valley new town presentation: 2/2

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EBBSFLEET 21st Century Garden City

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TEN COMMANDMENTS

•Place Fresh Food within Walking Distance of residents

•Bring Food (products & services) to Residents

•Reverse Residents > Food

•Require all Food Catering to have Vegetarian Menus

•Shift from Treatment to Prevention

• Integrate Health Care into Town Centres

•Healthy Cities Agenda

•Place Nutrition above Drugs / Surgery

•Change the Physical layout of new towns

•Move learning, health, amenities, and hospitality to within walking distance

•Change the walking distance from 500m to 250m

•No home/unit more than two blocks from ‘green’ or ‘blue’ … parks or waterfronts.

•Planning based on improving life expectancy, not maintaining it.

•Tree of Knowledge vs. Tree of Life

•Health & Learning at the Centre of Garden Cities, not perimeter

•30 Preventable Diseases changed by nutrition, diet, lifestyle, and now: planning.

•Life Expectancy doubled, but design principles have not.

•Heroic Routine of Everyday life.

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Freedom to LearnFreedom of HealthFreedom of PrivacyFreedom of Networking

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