On the last 75 years ∞

Anil Dash:

There’s nothing intrinsic about small towns & cities that requires them to be built around cars. That’s an invention of the last ~75 years.

Dash isn’t wrong, but the way small towns and cities have grown around the car in the last 75 years has been natural. Something has to topple the centrality of the car for that to change.

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