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The School at the Center of a Neighborhood Unit
Japanese law says that no child should have to go more than two and a half miles to get to elementary school. But i's not just the distance between home and school that determines whether kids can safely make the walk. There is also another urban design factor, the size of the streets. The united states has really wide streets, even in residential neighborhoods. These days, streets are often designed to be wide enough to give fire engines room to manoeuvre.