#auto dependency

[urban-surfin]

The number of cars per household has risen as the number of people per household has fallen

[urban-surfin]

Things I Hate

-- Coffee shops surrounded by lazy Americans in cars at the drive-thru

-- Sluggers standing at the plate watching homers that barely clear the fence

-- buildings plopped randomly in a sea of asphalt

-- Corporate dominance of the whole fucking world

[urban-surfin]

"... infiltration of pedestrians" into the automobile's right-of-way.

"... the neural ganglia of freeways. ..."

-- Monica Smith, "Cities: The First 6,000 Years"

[urban-surfin]

Let's take a walk in the narrow strip between the parked cars and the speeding cars.

[urban-surfin]

"The assumed right of the private motorcar to go anyplace in the city and park anywhere is nothing less than a license to destroy the city."

-- Lewis Mumford, 1961

[urban-surfin]

There are those who are careless and those who are carless

[colinjbrown]

Unproductive Growth

A great piece this week by Andrew Price over at Strong Towns takes a look at 5 major drawbacks to car dependency: social isolation, discrimination, expenses, decline of small business, and effect on public health.  The article, “The Negative Consequences of Car Dependency,” is an easy read and really worth checking out, even if you just look at the pictures.

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[urbnist]

The right to have access to every building in the city by private motorcar in an age when everyone possesses such a vehicle is actually the right to destroy the city. -Lewis Mumford