In the same way that monocropping corn creates weaker, less resilient land, monocropping our streets with cars creates cities that aren’t as vibrant as they ought to be. We often don’t notice it, because we’ve trained ourselves to think of streets as “almost exclusively for cars”. But if you think of all the things you could do with streets, you realize how weird it is that we have, for decades now, used them mostly only for vehicles.
If we can rewild the landscape, why not rewild city streets? Why not transform them so cars are only one part of what they’re used for?
https://clivethompson.medium.com/rewilding-cities-b654e8abf7fb