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Is you like a business reporting style of writing you will enjoy this book. The author, Daniel Knowles, is currently The Economist's Midwest correspondent, based in Chicago.

In Carmageddon, Knowles outlines the rise of the automobile and the costs we all bear as a result. Weaving together history, economics, and reportage, he traces the forces and decisions that normalized cars and cemented our reliance on them. Knowles takes readers around the world to show the ways car use has impacted people's lives—from Nairobi, where few people own a car but the city is still cloaked in smog, to Houston, where the Katy Freeway has a mind-boggling 26 lanes and there are 30 parking spaces for every resident, enough land to fit Paris ten times. With these negatives, Knowles shows that there are better ways to live, looking at Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Tokyo, and New York City.

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    02-25-2024 at 05:20 PM.
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    I'm confused. Is the community voting this down because we don't like the title / thesis / synopsis? Or because the deal is bad?
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    02-25-2024 at 05:25 PM.
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    I'm currently reading "Bookageddon - How Unnecessary Books Make Life Worse and What To Do About It" so I'm going to have to pass unfortunately
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    02-25-2024 at 05:28 PM.
    02-25-2024 at 05:28 PM.
    I thought this was for the PC game from back in the 90s. 😂
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    02-25-2024 at 07:48 PM.
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    Quote from FabulousOstrich1300 :
    I'm confused. Is the community voting this down because we don't like the title / thesis / synopsis? Or because the deal is bad?
    I think there's a communications issue at play between urbanists and people who see urbanists as somehow wanting to make their lives harder/worse by removing their ability to drive. On the contrary, the goal is get to a point where you have options insofar as how to travel rather than your only option being to pay for a car/insurance/fuel to get anywhere. The desired end result is that only people that want/need to drive are driving rather than everyone being forced to drive because there are simply no other safe, realistic options.
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    02-26-2024 at 09:58 AM.
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    I appreciate the comments here. As a resident of Los Angeles, who grew up in suburban Philly, I gained insights from a number of passages in the book. Chapter 10, "Free Parking, Do Not Pass Go," talks about the history of the "dingbat." This is essentially a squat block of apartments, sitting on top of a carport. You see this architecture all over LA. A 1958 zoning law - which required 1.25 parking spaces for an apartment with more than "three inhabitable rooms" - gave rise to the apartment building style. Jumping to modern day, downtown LA has 107 parking spaces per acre. That is equivalent to 2/3 of the land of downtown LA allocated to parking. (multi-level garages create a scenario where 2/3 of the land isn't literally parking.) Totally crazy stuff that helps explain how we got here and inspires where we might go from here, in the context of the fact "in 2023, 337 people were killed by cars on L.A. streets, an 8% increase compared with 2022, according to the LAPD. In fact, deaths on our roads have nearly doubled since 2015 when the city committed itself to "Vision Zero."' (source: LATimes)
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    gluttonne
    02-26-2024 at 12:27 PM.
    02-26-2024 at 12:27 PM.
    Quote from keanefan72 :
    I thought this was for the PC game from back in the 90s.
    Me too, I was hoping someone finally put out a new one. One of my alltime favorite PC games.

    UPDATE: they DID put out a new one several years ago, and it's on sale for $4.24 ($4.99 with the max pack addon)
    Buying immediately.

    https://store.steampowered.com/ap...ax_Damage/
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