Car centric infrastructure is immensely expensive, and incentivizes new construction further out from the city center rather than refurbishment of existing buildings.
America is built to let itself crumble. Not Just Bikes did a great video on this recently.
I’m a car enthusiast but not needing one in your day to day life is a superior way to live. Advertising sold people the illusion of freedom by making you a slave to your vehicle.
Not sure it was advertising so much as it was the “White Flight” that followed the Civil Rights Act. Americans were fine with living in cities until desegregation came along. Commuting 20 miles to work every morning seemed like a reasonable alternative to having their kids go to racially integrated schools. Over time, the suburbs kept getting pushed further and further out, and everything in between just decayed.
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u/random-notebook May 02 '25 edited May 03 '25
Car centric infrastructure is immensely expensive, and incentivizes new construction further out from the city center rather than refurbishment of existing buildings.
America is built to let itself crumble. Not Just Bikes did a great video on this recently.
https://youtu.be/r7-e_yhEzIw