How Cars Took Over American Streets

Justine Underhill November 26, 2023
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Chapters: 00:00 Who Owns The Streets? 01:08 History 05:52 If you give a car a parking spot... 09:46 Consequences 13:49 Roadblocks 21:58 Solutions 24:00 Can we do better? For the vast majority of civilization, the streets were a shared space for kids playing, bicycles, pedestrians, merchants and more. But by the 1920s there was a huge shift in how we use our public space, and that has major consequences on how we live today. So what happened then? And what happens now when cities rethink how we use our streets? ABOUT JUSTINE I'm a journalist with a background in economics and theater. I worked as a producer and on-air reporter at Yahoo Finance, and I later created a documentary series focused on science and tech at Real Vision. My focus now is on urban design, and I was recently elected to City Council in my hometown of Falls Church VA. KEY SOURCES Jaywalking and National Automobile Chamber of Commerce history: Street Rivals: Jaywalking and the Invention of the Motor Age Street Peter Norton George Graham quote: Automotive Industries, Volume 50, Issues 1-9 Google Books Congestion costs: The Fundamental Law of Road Congestion: Evidence from US cities Gilles Duranton & Matthew A. Turner -- Walkable City (Chapter: Put Cars in Their Place) Jeff Speck Conditions for making friends: Why Is It Hard to Make Friends Over 30? Alex Williams, New York Times Chicago heatwave: Heatwave Eric Klinenberg Traffic reductions (after removing space from cars): Disappearing traffic? The story so far S. Cairns, S. Atkins and P. Goodwin Cheonggyecheon Stream stats: Cheonggyecheon Stream Restoration Project Landscape Performance Case Study Brief by the Landscape Architecture Foundation Rochester: Can Removing Highways Fix America’s Cities? By Nadja Popovich, Josh Williams and Denise Lu, New York Times Toronto: Measuring the Local Economic Impacts of Replacing On-Street Parking With Bike Lanes: A Toronto (Canada) Case Study Daniel Arancibia, Steven Farber, Beth Savan, Yvonne Verlinden Journal of the American Planning Association Minneapolis & Seattle: Understanding Economic and Business Impacts of Street Improvements for Bicycle and Pedestrian Mobility Jenny Liu, Portland State University -- Study Finds Bike Lanes Can Provide Positive Economic Impact in Cities TREC Salt Lake City: 300 South Progress Report: Broadway Protected Bike Lane, 2015 Salt Lake City Division of Transportation -- Salt Lake City Cuts Car Parking, Adds Bike Lanes, Sees Retail Boost Michael Andersen, Streetsblog NYC: Measuring the Street: New Metrics for 21st Century Streets, 2012 NYC DOT Weather: How Do Weather Events Impact Roads? Federal Highway Administration, USDOT Savannah: Parking is Important and Not Important Kevin Klinkenberg, Strong Towns Any other sources you want to see? Let me know!

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