Car Culture
Eduardo Castro
Created on October 1, 2022
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By Pol Rodes, Ricardo Felix, Eduardo Castro, Melvin Choto
Car culture in america
EFFECTS
COUNTER ARGUMENT
Comparison
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BEFORE TIMES
INCEPTION
Car culture fundamentally undermines human centric urban planning, and our norms about cars, and should be changed for a more liveable society as a whole
Streets, before being planned organized to house car related infrastructure where often used much more socially and liberally than before. Besides being considerably safer, people where free to use to streets to form gatherings and outings, businesses and restaurants could post terraces outside their land. Additionally, cities had much more space given the lack of parking spaces being allocated. Noise was regulated much less given the lack of running motors constantly idling. Obesity was an often isolated issue that rarely happened even well into 1910's food surplus, because people mostly walked to and from places.
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STREETS BEFORE URBANIZATION
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What allowed cars to become so integrated into our life is mostly acredited to Ford, GM, and other automobile corporations in the 1920s-50s lobbying to pass favorable laws in congress, increasing speed limits cities and making jay walking a crime. However, the basic idea of car centralized urban planning comes from New York Secretary of State Robert Moses’s design philosophy. He built a variety of high rise bridges, and most notably I-278, a high-rise highway that cuts directly through the city center. Highways built during this era share a common trend of being built to disadvantaged African Americans,I-95 being an example. Around 10,000 people living in the majority black suburb of Overtown had their houses bulldozed with minimal compensation.Additionally, Robert Moses's architecture was subtly segregated from African Americans, such as having bridges have a height limit below Greyhound Buses, The most common way for african americans to commute. Interstates were often built intentionally on community and suburb lines to divide white and black homeowners.
HOW DID WE GET HERE
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Studies find that 91.55% of households reported having access to at least one vehicle in 2020, with cars being responsible for a significant amount of pollution on our streets. Cities spend more money, time, effort, and space building utilities like parking lots, highways, and streets instead of building more useful buildings like schools, parks, and homes. It's not just that, cars are dangerous to both the drivers and civilians. Almost each day 3,331 innocent people in Florida die due to car accidents, making private transport via car multiples more time dangerous than public transport . Additionally, Studies find that the noise pollution emitted from living in car dense cities causes considerable more anxiety and mental issues within the general population. Cars are not only bad for the environment and safety, they're also bad for the economy. Car fuel itself is already a major expense. Beyond the purchase of the car and its fuel the car isn't perfect and will eventually need maintenance or when the car is beyond the point of repair you will need to buy a new one.
HOW CAR CULTURE AFFECTS US
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Automobile transportation is commonly noted to help people with disabilities or people that find it difficult to walk. Disabled peoples who own cars have a much easier time going to and from work and other places than other handicapped people who use public buses and subways. Some may argue that car culture is a representation of freedom and individuality or that it has shaped our modern world too much for it to disappear. This may be true but eliminating cars as a whole is not the goal. They are a central part of the car culture, which is often seen as positive freedom, but it is actually negative freedom. Cars give us the freedom to do what we want when we want, without worrying about getting from A to B. However, this freedom comes at a cost - having the freedom to drive a car means being able to destroy the environment in order to satisfy your needs. Drivers also suffer from health problems related to their time spent driving, examples of these can be hypertension and obesity.
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COUNTER ARGUMENT
Streets within American cities are commonly packed together with high traffic and little to no room for pedestrians. This in stark contrast to european cities, which hostly commonly little cars and have much more people in them. This is due to low taxation, tariffs, and architecture built around parking. European cities create car free zones by cutting off traffic in certain districts, eliminating public parking for non residents. This results in more foot traffic, better business accesibillity, cleaner air, and general calmer attitudes in cities.What is responsible for such different social and urban climates between these societies? This can mainly be attributed to american attitudes toward public transit. The Republican party and Democratic party have consistently voted in bipartisan measures to keep our cities the way they are, mostly out of cultural aptitudes adopted from the cold war, such as a consistent adversion to public utilities. Therefore, one of the direct relief methods to get into action is changing the politics that caused the issue first. The right politician can make a town or a city all the more liveable than it used to be.