For all its benefits, the automobile (and its fuglier big brother, the prickup truck) have, more than anything else, contributed to the uglification of our cities and suburbs.
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Six egregious symptoms of the Cancer:
(1) Snout Houses
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(2) Big Box Barf-somehow way, way worse than the shopping mall it replaces. Landing pads for UFOs?
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(3) Horribly ugly suburban arterial roads (the most pedestrian unfriendly places on the planet other than expressways). The solution to congestion? Widen then again, and again, and again!
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(4) Extremely ugly highrises surrounded by acres of parking
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(5) gigantic parking lots
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(6) drive thrus (perhaps the very worst of them all)
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Other symptoms?
it is clear that the automobile is, indirectly, the most subsidized industry in North America. We design cities and many buildings for cars, not for people.
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