Subtitle: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile
Despite the title, this book is mostly about life during cars, with all the attendant horrors. Pedestrian and motorist deaths, pollution, environmental destruction, freeways built on top of thriving Black neighborhoods. The lockdown during the early part of the Covid pandemic gave us a glimpse of what it might be like to reclaim the world from cars and drivers, but we seem to have returned (or been pushed) back to the status quo.
Recommended if you want a chilling look at the true costs of car culture. I was hoping for more about the positive alternatives. There is some space given to the activists speaking up about car culture, and to cities in Europe and Asia that have taken back some of their streets for bicyclists and pedestrians.
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