"The American town lost its heart, became strip-malled and overrun, because the street front had been consumed by places to put the cars that brought you there. It was the nineteenth-century manure problem—only with sterile spaces rather than smelly piles" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/05/22/carmageddon-daniel-knowles-book-review-paved-paradise-henry-grabar?utm_medium=email&utm_so < This is excellent on moving away from our dependence on cars, particularly the true cost of free parking #sustainability #environment #transport