“Cars ruin everything.”

That’s the bold opening line of Life After Cars, the new book by celebrated transportation media figures Sarah Goodyear, Doug Gordon, and Aaron Naparstek. The writers make a case for that initial assertion, detailing the various ways cars—or, more specifically, car culture as we currently know it—ruin childhoods, destroy wildlife, perpetuate societal injustices, and kill people, to name a few particularly negative effects.

But, as its title suggests, Life After Cars also contains a hopeful side, asking readers to imagine how humans could thrive in a post- automobile world. Portlanders have a chance to hear about this directly, from Goodyear and Gordon, at an upcoming Powell’s reading.

Brooklynites Goodyear, Gordon, and Naparstek, whose backgrounds include a mix o

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