Healthy Life

Healthy streets, healthy life – POLITICO

Beach Drive in Washington, DC, remains a walker’s paradise. | Getty Images American cities that closed streets during the pandemic to give residents additional outdoor space for recreation have returned most of them to drivers. Those reopenings are a missed opportunity to improve health if the prognosis from an ongoing experiment in urban redesign in Barcelona, ​​Spain, is any indication. POLITICO’s Helen Collis reports that Barcelona has seen promising results from a decade-old project to close large sections of three neighborhoods to traffic. A survey of people living in the repurposed areas found they reported better rest, increased socialization and…