Thursday’s Headlines: Car Culture Myth-Making Edition
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We found ourself appalled at a publishing company's forthcoming hagiography of car culture. Plus other news.
Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Car Culture
NYC Transforms Site of Award-Winning Outdoor Dining Space Into Street Parking
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When Mayor Eric Adams grabbed a sledgehammer and knocked down an unused outdoor dining structure in Koreatown last week, his administration suggested that not all of these hard-won, carless public spaces would revert back to parking.
To Fix Inflation And Climate Change, Get Americans out of Cars
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Our gas-guzzling rides are tanking our personal finances and municipal budgets as well as dooming the planet.
Mayor Razes Abandoned Outdoor Dining Structures; Advocates Want That Space for People, Not Cars
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Lots of swagger, but not much of a plan.
The Brake Podcast: What Would the ‘Post-Automobility’ Future Look Like?
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Here's part two of our discussion with authors Robert Braun and Richard Randell about why automobility isn't really about cars at all — and how it's become what they call a "totalitarian system" that touches virtually every part of our lives.
This Artificial Intelligence Bot is Designing Better Streets Than Some Engineers
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Leave it to a Brooklyn artist to break through Americans' willful inability to imagine how their communities could be designed around people instead of automobiles.