Car-dependency can be addicting. Strong words they are and they come from this series of vlogs/documentaries made by Jason Slaughter. Know more:
Car-dependency can be addicting. Strong words they are and they come from this series of vlogs/documentaries made by Jason Slaughter. In my last week’s iteration of this column, I introduced the insights developed by Jason Slaughter in Not Just Bikes, his hugely popular YouTube channel.
Speaking of loss, Jason Slaughter reminisces how his city used to be a beautiful place because people could walk from one place to another. Until places were bulldozed to give way to roads and highways, and with them structures like old churches, schools, houses and places of business employing hundreds of people.
To follow the words of Jason Slaughter, a car-centric design is an anti-human design. We have always thought of the busy thoroughfares as possessing difficulties for us humans but we never really pegged that idea as a product of a technology that does not have man/woman in its conceptualization.With major cities seemingly hopelessly against us, where do we go? Could we borrow the words of e.e. cummings? You know that line: “…listen: there’s a hell/of a good universe next door; let’s go.
He moves to Amsterdam and there observes how the Dutch have improved their old city. He has two vlogs/documentaries with pop titles. One is Why Many Cities Suck and Why Amsterdam Just Got Awesomer. It is good to take note of those titles because they show the effectiveness of these presentations—they are never ponderous, they are user-friendly, as friendly as the search for a better place to be.
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