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The connections between invitations and behavior came to a head for cities in the 20th century. . . . In every case, attempts to relieve traffic pressure by building more roads and parking garages have generated more traffic and more congestion. The volume of car traffic almost everywhere is more or less arbitrary, depending on the available transportation infrastructure.
Cities for People
Jan Gehl, Richard Rogers (Foreword)
The only security we have is our neighbors’ approval. An archist can break a law and hope to get away unpunished, but you can’t ‘break’ a custom; it’s the framework of your life with other people. We’re only just beginning to feel what it’s like to be revolutionaries, as Shev put it in the meeting today. And it isn’t comfortable.”
The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le Guin
Where would all this new money come from? From the central banks, who can make up new money through quantitative easing, as they did to keep liquidity in the economy after a credit freeze caused by a panic in the subprime mortgage market in 2008.
Paying Ourselves to Decarbonize | NOEMA
Kim Stanley Robinson
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