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It's time to get mad about cars. In this episode of Good Cities, Nathan Bird and Jacob Hyman discuss how cars have reshaped the city. How did cars become necessary for life? How did the American government implement a car-centered society? How has the rise of suburbia impacted our cities? Welcome to Car Wars (...part 1)!

Timestamps
00:00 Car Madness
01:40 Dinosaur Oil Machines
03:18 Why We Drive by Crawford
06:10 Marc's GameBoy Advance
07:30 Love of Driving
08:41 Car as Necessary for Life
11:38 Farmers and Cars
14:22 Industrialism Scaled Everything
15:37 Impact of the Internal Combustion Engine
17:12 Mechanized Labor and Monoculture
18:04 Americanization and the Car
20:46 The Need for the Automobile
21:47 Jaywalking Laws
22:50 Technological Progress and Inevitability
23:31 Post-World War II Industrial Capacity
25:19 New Technological Needs
28:00 Eisenhowers Highway Network
30:46 Effects of Highways on Neighborhoods
32:20 Every Man a King: Suburban Ideal
34:08 The American Suburb Lawn
36:30 Commuter Class and Downtown Centers
38:01 Church Building in Suburbs
41:03 Isolation of Churches in Suburbia
42:57 Separation of the Poor from Parishes
45:30 Soviet Urbanism and American Suburbs
48:04 The Cold War and American Exceptionalism
49:32 Policing the Open Road
50:58 Traditional Beat Cop vs. Modern Traffic Policing
53:15 Surveillance and the Expanding Police State
56:20 Car Dependency and Its Impact on Society