Category: Car Blanche
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My first podcast episode 😬🎙️🤓
Instead of a blog post this week, I’m sharing one professional milestone update: I’m really grateful to have had the opportunity to discuss my paper on the conflict system of vehicular violence with Streetsblog’s Kea Wilson on her podcast “The Brake.” It was surreal (and humbling) to talk with someone…
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Streets and The Anxious Generation Part II
Last week I shared some initial thoughts on Jon Haidt’s book The Anxious Generation, and the connections I saw between his diagnosis and prognosis of a significant social shift towards screens and my research about streets. Turns out there’s more where that came from! Towards the end of the book…
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Streets and “The Anxious Generation”
I recently read Jon Haidt’s The Anxious Generation and – like The Coddling of the American Mind and The Righteous Mind before it – found many of his points compelling. His main argument is that there has been a massive shift in the childhood experience (at least in the US…
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Why car supremacy and not driver supremacy? Plus, an act of norm disobedience 🥸
I was recently asked why I use the term car supremacy instead of driver supremacy. Indeed, given the specific dynamics I’m focusing on when I examine the conflict system of car supremacy – the power everyday people wield to maintain their privileged position atop the modal hierarchy – it might…
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Conference to-do list: 1) unpack your baggage, 2) unpack the baggage that comes with car supremacy 🧳
I recently had the privilege of attending the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning annual conference, held this year in a place where it actually felt seasonably cool for fall (and had the foliage to boot): Seattle. I was a first-time attendee and I must say, it felt pretty darn…
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A case for rebranding: we need a transportation ecosystem
I recently had the opportunity to present early findings from my bike bus research at the American Political Science Association (APSA) annual meeting 🤓. Over the summer, I was honored to have spoken with nearly two dozen adult bike bus participants (nearly all volunteering their time and bodies to make…
Peace and Planning 