My favorite Mark Wagenburr video on his channel Markenlei is the video titled Potterstraat, Utrecht (Netherlands) . In it, he describes how the historic city of Utrecht, Netherlands actually went down a similar path that the United States went down in the 40s and 50s. They, too, demolished their historic buildings to make way for a new transportation era dominated by cars. They, too, created grand city plans to endlessly widen streets to make way for the automobile. In fact, the buildings they so carelessly flattened were centuries old rather than decades old like the ones in America. This fact makes me feel a little less embarrassed about our country's car-centric development path. However, the 1960s and '70s generation of Hollanders chose a drastically different path than ours did. In Utrecht, traffic continued to grow no matter how much they widened their streets. Life in the city center was simply awful, and this created a widespread a change of mind. So in 1965, ...
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