Carmageddon: How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do about It

Daniel Knowles

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Langue : anglais

Edité par Harry N. Abrams, 2025

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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. "Briskly written, well researched, and with a knack for landing the significant statistic right after the crisply summarized argument." --The New Yorker 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, he traces the forces and decisions that normalized cars and cemented our reliance on them. 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 introduces overwhelming problems. 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. Knowles 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.

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Titre
Carmageddon: How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do about It
Auteur
Daniel Knowles
Éditeur
Harry N. Abrams
Année de publication
2025
État de l'article
Good
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Paperback
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
1419775073
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9781419775079

World of Books Inc

Montgomery, IL, Etats-Unis

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