Author: Paul Ratner / Source: Big Think
- Canadian researchers find that excessive reliance on cars changes political views.
- Decades of car-centric urban planning normalized unsustainable lifestyles.
- People who prefer personal comfort elect politicians who represent such views.
Want more things to blame for the ever-growing political divide in the United States?
A new study pins cars and dangerous urban planning as a duo of socially divisive culprits that drive right-wing populism.You might not think of urban planning as something having any effect on your life. As you rush about your daily affairs, the way you do it and the environment around you most often blends into the background. It is the stage for your exploits. But scientists from University of Waterloo in Canada say that the background has a major influence on society.
In an eye-opening conclusion, the study showed that car-centric urban planning decisions made decades ago were also connected to political attitudes that prefer comfort and convenience over sustainable development.
Pierre Filion from the University of Waterloo’s School of Planning, who…
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