For most of human history, streets served as public spaces where crucial social and economic exchanges took place. That’s changed dramatically over the last 70 years, as planning policies favored cars over people–a huge loss since streets can take up as much as one-third of a community’s land.

Ironically, this single-minded pursuit of creating efficiency for the automobile has also failed to successfully address transportation issues. Which goes to show that, as PPS has long said, “If you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. If you plan for people and places, you get people and places.”

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