Zlín – dubbed the “model town of Modernism” – located in the Czech Republic, is a town that was purpose designed to maximise its production of shoes… now that’s what I call town planning.
The town is divided into zones assigned to the areas of working, living, spare time and traffic – a separation of functions [...]
Not a shoe-house in sight in the town designed to make shoes
Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 16 November, 2009 to the design and art subset
For best results when running… go barefoot?
Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 17 July, 2009 to the comment subset
Your mileage may vary though… research has shown that running shoes have done little to reduce injuries compared to running barefoot. I doubt, for instance, I’d ever go running along Sydney’s footpath’s barefoot.
“People have been running barefoot for millions of years and it has only been since 1972 that people have been wearing shoes with [...]
No shoes in the house may mean a house free of disease
Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 3 July, 2009 to the comment subset
Another reason not to wear shoes inside your home, and to also ask visitors to remove theirs at the door, they are the carriers of all sorts of diseases.
After two weeks, more than 420,000 units of bacteria were found on the outside of the test shoes. Of that bacteria, 27% were deadly E. Coli virus. [...]
