people have just accepted cars as the default mode of transportation
That wasn’t an accident and it didn’t just ‘happen;’ it was the very deliberate result of a combination of automobile and oil industry propaganda and US government policy back in the 1930s-1950s, motivated by several factors ranging from utopian modernist city planning to good ol’fashioned racism.
there’s also the argument that pushing to distribute population centers away from cities forced the soviet union to manufacture larger and more numerous atomic weapons to maintain parity with US capabilities.
not in the “hey we want to save as many people” way it’s portrayed, more like, let’s make it harder for the sov’s to equal the potential megadeaths we intended to dish out
exclusively bulldozes entire black neighborhoods while at the same creating redline laws that prohibit black people from owning houses in the suburbs. peak racism policy
That wasn’t an accident and it didn’t just ‘happen;’ it was the very deliberate result of a combination of automobile and oil industry propaganda and US government policy back in the 1930s-1950s, motivated by several factors ranging from utopian modernist city planning to good ol’fashioned racism.
Some random sources to get folks started:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_city_movement
https://www.strongtowns.org/curbside-chat-1/2015/12/14/americas-suburban-experiment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurama_(New_York_World's_Fair)
https://www.pbssocal.org/history-society/the-birth-of-sprawl-how-ending-the-great-depression-meant-inventing-the-suburbs
there’s also the argument that pushing to distribute population centers away from cities forced the soviet union to manufacture larger and more numerous atomic weapons to maintain parity with US capabilities.
not in the “hey we want to save as many people” way it’s portrayed, more like, let’s make it harder for the sov’s to equal the potential megadeaths we intended to dish out
…And we’re totally not moving to suburbs because we’re racist.
exclusively bulldozes entire black neighborhoods while at the same creating redline laws that prohibit black people from owning houses in the suburbs. peak racism policy
We needed that freeway there too make our commutes from the
racistsuburbs shorter.