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001202 Jane Holtz-Kay - Asphalt Nation: The Paving of America

The 'Open Road' is part of the mystique of American culture: hit the highway in your car and travel the great, big country. There are plenty of highways and streets to drive on - about two and a half million miles worth. We have more cars in the US than anywhere else in the world and some of the lowest gasoline prices. But the open road is not so open any more. Subdivisions and shopping malls follow the road-building, devouring thousands of acres of land every week. Car culture, poor planning and a system that favours auto-dependent development all contribute to the paving of America.

Jane Holtz Kay looks at how this happened and highlights several ways that communities can reverse this trend and design for people, not cars. She is the architecture and planning critic for The Nation magazine and the author of Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take it Back.


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