How The Auto Industry Carjacked The American Dream | Climate Town

What Hacker News said

Recommends woile · 2021-10 · on “Pandora papers: biggest leak of offshore data exposes financial secrets of rich”

I have the same feeling, like we were slowly indoctrinated into believing that upvoting is the only thing we can do and participation is worthless. I recently watched this video[0] that shows how public perception over cars has been influenced over many many years into what we now have (and we now perceive as normal). I feel like it's somewhat related. [0]: [this video]

Recommends fayten · 2022-03 · on “Americans do not want to return to urban living”

There are quite a few factors, I'd encourage checking out the following videos by Not Just Bikes and Climate Towns that cover a broad range of city planning and zoning in the US. Strong Towns Play List by Not Just Bikes (This heavily covers city planning issues in the US): [LINK] The Suburbs Are Bleeding America Dry by Climate Towns (This covers zoning): [LINK] How The Auto Industry Carjacked The American Dream (This covers the auto industries impact on US cities.): [this video] Dutch Cities are Better for the Climate (and my sanity) by Not Just Bikes (Not super relevant to zoning, but it's part 1 of The Suburbs Are Bleeding America Dry so I figured I'd link it.): [LINK] These are pretty snarky,

Recommends otikik · 2022-07 · on “When cities treated cars as dangerous intruders”

> America got to be car-centric not because of nefarious car companies or other special interests, it got to be car-centric because cars work very well for our use case Orr it could actually be that they paid for advertisements and politicians just to do that. If you don't want to read about it, here's a video that explains it: [this video]

Recommends fayten · 2025-09 · on “Pontevedra, Spain declares its entire urban area a "reduced traffic zone"”

This depends on how you define ROI. Car infrastructure and lack of density reduces tax revenue for cities and strains infrastructure. There are other human benefits to reducing car traffic and use in favor of public transportation: * Reduces air pollution * Noise pollution * Allows a focus on human centric urban planning * Allows for higher density commercial and residential increasing tax revenue * Reduces pedestrian traffic injury Well done video essays: Parking minimums [LINK] Noise pollution [LINK] Infrastructure strain [LINK] More on Infrastructure and Sprawl [LINK] Articles: [LINK] [LINK] [LINK] Climate town videos are all well researched and provide an enormous amount of follow-up con

Cites dav_Oz · 2023-02 · on “We’re using our streets all wrong [video]”

Well, one major player on shaping the streets was the emerging car industry itself. Not the only factor of course but nevertheless a very interesting story [0] to tell from that perspective where pedestrians not obeying the new strict rules began to be called jaywalkers. [0] [this video]

Cites rglullis · 2025-09 · on “Why, as a responsible adult, SimCity 2000 hits differently”

"Aren't those laws being lobbied by corporations who only fund the politicians that promise to keep things in their favor?" [this video]

Cites rglullis · 2025-09 · on “Why, as a responsible adult, SimCity 2000 hits differently”

> Most American cities are built on a scale designed around human driving. That's absolutely not true. It only became true in the post-war when there was a push for suburban sprawl, lobbied by GM and all the auto industry [0] > it's pretty safe to bet that she doesn't think that she can live where she does without a car. "Where there is a will, there is a way", right? The discussion is not even if she can go by without a car, but whether she would want it. > We can't even manage the political will to build enough housing to keep people off the streets. Ok, but then don't go around trying to rationalize your bad choices and poor capacity for civic organization. [1] Don't go around saying "I l