Did The Freeway Invent The Car?

An interesting counter-argument to Ivan Illich and André Gorz

I wrote a series of pieces recently, starting with an essay over at Plough, and followed up by two pieces here—one basically an elaboration/reiteration of the Plough essay, and the second a little bit of a clarification.

TLDR, I was writing about the effects that the car, and particularly its widespread adoption, had on old cities. I drew on a couple of …