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Throughout its economy, it replaced colonies with chemistry.
How to Hide an Empire
Daniel Immerwahr
We choose to subsidize highways rather than transit and in so doing commit the working poor to own several cars.
Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change
Peter Calthorpe
Travel demand models come in different shapes and sizes. They can cover entire metro regions spanning across state lines or tackle a small stretch of a suburban roadway. And they have gotten more complicated over time. But they are rooted in what’s called the Four Step process, a rough approximation of how humans make decisions about getting from A to B. At the end, the model spits out numbers estimating how many trips there will be along certain routes.
The Broken Algorithm That Poisoned American Transportation
vice.com
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