This podcast is focused on reclaiming  public space for bikes, pedestrians and community culture. Cars and  their highways, roads, streets and parking infrastructure occupy up to  half the land surface in an urban area. Cars create pollution, noise,  they run over people and cause immense levels of property damage. They  are a large part of climate change. They degrade community culture. Cars  are the perfect example of economic super sizing. The more the excess,  the more the profits. Trillions spent on cars and car infrastructure  mean lost opportunities for healthy investments in green and resilient  homes and communities. 

We will take a look at 3 aborted freeways in the  US and then a "menu" of actions for pushing back on cars in the US  ranging from critical mass bike rides and "parking day" to Sunday  Streets in Eugene, San Francisco's Parklet Program and the Community  Plaza Program in New York City with its banner project - making much of  Times Square car free.  

The image illustrates a super block in Barcelona, Spain.  An industrial scale approach to pushing back on cars now in use in Barcelona. 

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