Saw that Carl Hahn died. He was the head of Volkswagen in the U.S. and played a huge role in making the Beetle one of the all-time icon cars. Here's an ad from 1972 for it. https://www.youtube.com/embed/lB9rK8UR0vk
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Amen to this: Today, the coronavirus pandemic, in all its horror, opens the prospect of sweeping urban change. Cities suddenly see the possibility of correcting their greatest mistake of the.
I think the general LGM consensus on urban planning is pretty similar to many progressives today, which is that cars are mostly bad for cities and walking is mostly good.
As G.M.'s healthy profit makes clear, it's been a striking policy success that Republicans in Congress were wrong about. For a strikingly non-prescient column, your moment of Bobo from 2009..