Late Afternoon Driving

 Week 9,  March 12 Saturday

Today we take a little drive to the Westfield Sarasota Square for some shopping. I never realize how far away it is until now, and this makes me ask the question why is everything so far apart in city like Sarasota? One of the reasons I can come up with is that America is a big country, and in order to fully use its land people need to build things apart. Building shopping area away from people’s housing is also good for reduce noise and increase living condition. When everything is so far from each other it increase of the population to buy car, which help to boost the economy…but in another hand that’s really bad for pollution. In some city like New York where everything is so concentrated together that actually make people to take public transportation, and in that perspective more concentrated city actually help to reduce air pollution. However even if 50% of the people living in concentrated city that don’t have car, the number of people that drive car is still larger than 100% of people living in a place like Sarasota with cars…not to say all the air conditions in the city like San Francisco. I am not sure where I am going with this thought, but this remind me of where I came from where everything is mix together, and you can go shopping next door…or go to the movie just by crossing the street. Perhaps the best condition is in the middle where you don’t need to drive too much but in the same time still keep a nice quite living condition.