Struggling to get in your daily steps? It may be your city’s fault

Grist
By Matt SimonAug 20, 2025, 4:45 am273 pts
If you’re struggling to walk more, know that it’s not necessarily a failure of willpower. Planners designed American cities not just to prioritize the car, but to impede the pedestrian — too few sidewalks, fat thoroughfares slicing up neighborhoods, sprawling parking lots instead of parks. Yet study after…

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