text: Changing the way one lives can change the way they look at life. Some people in the community of Vauban have found happiness just by reducing their car usage. "'When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way.' said Heidrun Walter, a media trainer and mother of two" (3) In this community people get to experience walking down the street, hearing people instead of the constant sound of a running car. "In this new approach, stores are placed a walk away, on a main street, rather than in malls along some distant highway." The people living in the community don't have to go out of their way to buy something when they can just walk down the street and purchase it. The town of Vauban entertains the choice of effeciency and health over inconvienence and unsafe air.