Carmageddon: How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do About It

This book accounts for the history of one of the inventions of the 20th century that would change life and society as we know it: the automobile. Sold with the promise of freedom, style, and utility, we also have come to discover the pitfalls and costs of technology. From driving air pollution and climate change, banal urban development made with the car — not communities — in mind, and millions of traffic deaths. Journalist Daniel Knowles outlines the economic and cultural history of this vehicle and ties it into different personal accounts of lives around the world. He takes a look at cities that have considered alternatives to car centered life and ways people are adapting to live better and different in a post-automobile world.