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deciding, decades in advance, exactly how badly you'll be stuck in traffic.
means the discipline of designing where people live, work, and move so cities function instead of just accumulating.
from formalized in the industrial 1800s when overcrowded, disease-ridden cities forced governments to zone, sewer, and street-grid their way toward sanity; hausmann's paris and the garden city movement made it a profession.
single wordcul-de-sac comes from french dead end
induced demandwider highways create more traffic, not less
parking minimumsoften waste more land than the buildings