Automobile dependency -- Destruction and rebuilding of public transportation -- The cost of space -- Local government : Proposition 13 and the tax revolt -- Behavioral patterns -- Safety and commonsense -- Land use : developers, politicians and highway engineers--symbiotic relationship -- Economics -- Environmental, political and social effects -- Energy, sustainability and foreign policy -- Regressivity and the fuel tax -- Utility and disutility -- Naive solutions--disingenuous and otherwise -- What is to be done? -- Epilogue.
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