Carmageddon: How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do About It by Daniel Knowles

Carmageddon: How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do About It
Daniel Knowles
Page: 256
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ISBN: 9781419758805
Publisher: Abrams Press
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A high-octane polemic against cars—which are ruining the world, while making us unhappy and unhealthy—from a talented young writer at the Economist

The automobile was one of the most miraculous inventions of the 20th century. It promised freedom, style, and utility. But sometimes, rather than improving our lives technology just makes everything worse. Over the past century cars have filled the air with toxic pollutants and fueled climate change. Cars have stolen public space and made our cities uglier, dirtier, less useful, and more unequal. Cars have caused tens of millions of deaths and injuries. They have wasted our time and our money.

In Carmageddon, journalist Daniel Knowles outlines the rise of the automobile and the costs we all bear as a result. Weaving together history, economics, and reportage, Knowles traces the forces and decisions that normalized cars and cemented our reliance on them. He takes readers around the world to show the ways car use has impacted people’s lives—from Nairobi, where few people own a car but the city is still cloaked in smog, to Houston, where the Katy Freeway has a mind-boggling 26 lanes and there are 30 parking spaces for every resident, enough land to fit Paris ten times. With these negatives, Knowles shows that there are better ways to live, looking at Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Tokyo, and New York City.

CARMAGEDDON features original reporting from:
 Chicago
 Detroit
 Houston
 Las Vegas
 Los Angeles
 New York
 Paris, France
 Mumbai, India
 Nairobi, Kenya
 Tokyo, Japan
 London, Birmingham, and Coventry, England

CARMAGEDDON also covers:
 Atlanta
 Cincinnati
 Louisville
 Memphis
 St Louis
 Amsterdam, Netherlands
 Copenhagen, Denmark
 Lagos, Nigeria
 Sao Paolo, Brazil
 Singapore

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