So so good, so so interesting. I want so many people to read this. This could change the world for the better if taken seriously.

Basically, cars are stupid.
There's a lot more, obviously. But this book REALLY made me frustrated with cars.

Here follows some notes I made while reading. They're for my record keeping and aren't in a readable style, so I'm putting them in spoiler tags.

Spoiler

--pg. 8: Affect of no car day: first day nobody killed in traffic in four years, hospital admissions down a third, pollution thinned, everyone got to everything fine, more optimistic about life.
--pg. 22: Even back in the days of Horace, people longed for the "simple life".
--pg. 55: Commuting = bad. Long commuters 40% more likely to divorce!
--pg. 58-67: People can handle about 6-7 hours of social time before it starts to lessen happiness. More social time with family and friends = more happiness, basically.
--pg. 60: Suburb kids more unhappy.
--pg. 83: You never quite get habituated to commuting because it's a little different every day, bad parts are always uncertain. Changing a long commute to a short walk to work has same happiness increase as falling in love.
--pg. 96: Car deaths are bad and there are lots of them.
--pg. 96-7: Wide, clear roads and suburbia actually cause more car accidents. Lots of distractions, like pedestrians, make us drive slower and more carefully.
--pg. 109-110: Nature is SO good for us. (Even pictures help.)
--pg. 115-116: Vancouver architecture based on view of mountains, commuting times went down, 2/3 trips to downtown on foot or bike or public transport, lowest carbon footprint of continent per capita.
--pg. 119: Plants!
--pg. 120: Green spaces not an optional luxury.
--pg. 121: Gardening is super good for us!
--pg. 129-130: What a difference design can make!
--pg. 133: The perfect yard size is 10.6 feet (just enough to allow for socialness and conversation, but also retreat).
--pg. 137: Ideal density
--pg. 154: TV is bad for you. More TV you watch, the fewer friendships you are likely to have, the less trusting you are, and less happy.
--pg. 188-9: Lots of little parks and stores is WAY better than a few big ones. People walk way more downtown. Light rail makes people lose weight (they walk further to get to it).
--pg. 193: Young people less interested in getting driver's license, more interested in internet/texting time.
--pg. 200: North America is behind with transit cards. Hong Kong sounds so great! (The USA probably think it's too socialist, haha.)
--pg. 201-3: How to improve public transport. (Frequent service, screens showing when next bus/train will arrive, etc.)
--pg. 244-5: Park in Copenhagen has place specifically for alcoholics. (I think that's so cool. Something for everyone!)
--pg. 246: Making a city way better drives up housing costs.