What would happen if we banned cars? (Hint: it’s all good)
Channel: Weirder Futures
Date: 2023-09-21

Cars suck, so what if we banned them (seriously)? Removing cars from our cities and streets would have HUGE positive impacts. This video is a thought experiment to see what would happen if we ban cars in a city, a country, or even the whole world?! 

Sources and resources:

Why City Design is Important and Why I hate Houston (Not Just Bikes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxykI30fS54&t=3s

Let's Ban Cars (seriously!) (BitMonkey):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSSNlM3Au1A

Vox: Barcelona wants to build 500 superblocks. Here’s what it learned from the first ones: https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/energy-and-environment/2019/4/9/18273894/barcelona-urban-planning-superblocks-poblenou

Can We Make Cities Car Free (City Beautiful): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9-9CxCxrVE&t=322s

Super Blocks: How Barcelona is Taking City Streets Back from Cars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9-9CxCxrVE&t=322s

Car Recycling: How you can make money and save environment: https://www.thezebra.com/resources/personal-finance/car-recycling/

The evolution of China’s incredible high-speed rail network:
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/china-high-speed-rail-cmd/index.html

Walkability Means Better Business:https://economicdevelopment.extension.wisc.edu/files/2022/01/DE0719.pdf

How interstate highways gutted communities and reinforced segregation: https://www.history.com/news/interstate-highway-system-infrastructure-construction-segregation

Images of the High Line by Wikimedia Commons users Bryan Ledgard (CC BY 2.0), Frank Schulenburg (CC BY-SA 4.0), Mike Peel (CC BY-SA 4.0)