Windshield Bias, Car Brain, Motornormativity: Different Names, Same Obscured Public Health Hazard | Published in Findings
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Windshield Bias, Car Brain, Motornormativity: Different Names, Same Obscured Public Health Hazard | Published in Findings
When sidewalks and streets are built for some bodies and not for others at the scale of infrastructure, they create what political scientists Clarissa Rile Hayward and Todd Swanstrom call “thick injustice”—inequities within urban structures that are “deep and densely concentrated, as well as opaque and relatively intractable.”
Sara Hendren • What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World
The introduction of traffic lights, combined with safety campaigns, the demonization of dangerous drivers, and attempts to codify traffic rules might have been expected to reduce road…
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Tom Standage • A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next
these visions deliberately exclude anything that might be perceived as an obstacle or that seem outside a very narrow norm, from regulatory impediments to the inconvenience of other people. This characterizes the worldview of those who can only see a future that continues to be designed for the car.