Peace and Planning

Category: Car Blanche

  • When performance oversight testimony isn’t a mere…oversight

    You know time is flying when you think it’s still March more than a week into April 🤯 Now that I know what month it is – and since it’s been a minute – I figured I was overdue for getting updates and reflections out into the blogosphere.  For one,…

  • Can you tackle car supremacy if you…live in the ‘burbs? 😱

    I was recently invited to share my research with a class at the high school I attended. I was really lucky to get a scholarship (perhaps the one pay off for the diligent care my mom took to schlep me to endless soccer tournaments ⚽️) to an all girls private…

  • We need to talk about car supremacy

    The deeper I get into my doctoral program, the more I’m reminded of how important language is. The deeper I get into my dissertation research, the more I’m reminded of how inadequate our current language is to fully grapple with the impact that cars have on society. I’ve already written…

  • So are cars…inherently violent?

    In the last post I shared my views about expanding our vocabulary to vehicular violence to encapsulate all the direct, structural, and cultural violence of cars. This characterization begs the question: are cars inherently violent? Just because this blog is titled “Peace and Planning” doesn’t mean there isn’t room for…

  • There’s more to “vehicular violence” than alliteration

    Safe streets advocates frequently talk about traffic violence – when a person dies or is grievously injured because they were involved in a car crash. Lately I’ve been weary of using this term. While in some spaces we might think of traffic as rather benign (“the store had decent foot…

  • If you’ve ever wondered what Captain Planet’s (hot)take might be on EVs (and their tech cousins)

    In the early 2010s, there was a lot of hype about companies like Lyft and Uber. Because they had a leg-up on their taxi predecessors with their ease of use and ability to pick up multiple passengers along efficient routes, they finally promised the solution to what’s called the “last…