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by plants 977 days ago
Can you point to a book or other resources that support this claim? Interested in learning more. Always looking for another reason to hate cars as a New Yorker
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I'm reading "The Geography of Nowhere" right now, it covers much of this in a reasonably entertaining fashion, although its not chocka-block with references.

It does make some predictions that haven't dated well though (like hitting peak oil in 2023)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Geography_of_Nowhere

Strong Towns hy Chuck Marohn
AskHistorians Jake Berman covered this in his podcast "Public Transport in North America"

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D6HDTu5LYmk

Apparently it's not as black and white as many in this thread would suggest.