On: Parking Bombs: Destroying Downtowns for Cars

[lsb]

To be fair, kids grew up just fine without cars for almost all of recorded history.

[ars → lsb]

They had wagons. And no downtown.

People didn't travel much. When they did, single men used a horse, and families used a wagon.

[enf → ars]

They didn't have wagons. Only businesses that needed to haul things, or the very rich, could afford the space and money to keep animals in cities. Everyone else just lived in places that were compact enough that it was practical to walk everywhere.