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Sprawl is built on a foundation of law (redlining, zoning, impunity for vehicular crimes) and government subsidy (highways, tax breaks, cheap oil)
Paved Paradise
Henry Grabar
Tell him that if he still believes in our ways, then their deaths in the service of his freedom are worth more than his death in the service of their continued imprisonment.”
The Strength of the Few
James Islington
Travel is fun, so it is not mysterious that we like it. What is mysterious is why we imbue it with a vast significance, an aura of virtue. If a vacation is merely the pursuit of unchanging change, an embrace of nothing, why insist on its meaning?
The Case Against Travel
newyorker.com
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