From "The Car is the Enemy of the City"

Here's a look at some of the reasons cars and people don't get along, from an essay called The Car is the Enemy of the City:

Cars are the enemy of the city because there are fundamental, irreconcilable, clashing needs of the car habitat in contrast to the needs of habitat for people.

• Cars are most happy when they can move at high speeds.


• They enjoy large asphalt, surface parking lots.


• Cars like ample building setbacks and a separation of homes from offices and retail.


• They like simple, homogenized, monotonous streets and neighborhoods.


• They prefer very low residential and commercial densities. They are helped by lots of lighting.


• And cars like being anti-social, as they are happiest when there are no other cars around.