59 min
Pushing Back on Cars Creating A Preferred Present and Future
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- Education
This podcast is focused on reclaiming public space for bikes, pedestrians and community culture. Cars and their highways, roads, streets and parking infrastructure occupy up to half the land surface in an urban area. Cars create pollution, noise, they run over people and cause immense levels of property damage. They are a large part of climate change. They degrade community culture. Cars are the perfect example of economic super sizing. The more the excess, the more the profits. Trillions spent on cars and car infrastructure mean lost opportunities for healthy investments in green and resilient homes and communities.
We will take a look at 3 aborted freeways in the US and then a "menu" of actions for pushing back on cars in the US ranging from critical mass bike rides and "parking day" to Sunday Streets in Eugene, San Francisco's Parklet Program and the Community Plaza Program in New York City with its banner project - making much of Times Square car free.
The image illustrates a super block in Barcelona, Spain. An industrial scale approach to pushing back on cars now in use in Barcelona.
For more related paradigm shift podcasts and links to youtube videos, go to suburbanpermaculture.org
This podcast is focused on reclaiming public space for bikes, pedestrians and community culture. Cars and their highways, roads, streets and parking infrastructure occupy up to half the land surface in an urban area. Cars create pollution, noise, they run over people and cause immense levels of property damage. They are a large part of climate change. They degrade community culture. Cars are the perfect example of economic super sizing. The more the excess, the more the profits. Trillions spent on cars and car infrastructure mean lost opportunities for healthy investments in green and resilient homes and communities.
We will take a look at 3 aborted freeways in the US and then a "menu" of actions for pushing back on cars in the US ranging from critical mass bike rides and "parking day" to Sunday Streets in Eugene, San Francisco's Parklet Program and the Community Plaza Program in New York City with its banner project - making much of Times Square car free.
The image illustrates a super block in Barcelona, Spain. An industrial scale approach to pushing back on cars now in use in Barcelona.
For more related paradigm shift podcasts and links to youtube videos, go to suburbanpermaculture.org
59 min