The New York Times recently reviewed Tom Vanderbilt’s new book, Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do.
Here’s what they had to say:
Traffic jams are not, by and large, caused by flaws in road design but by flaws in human nature. While this is bad news for drivers—there’s not much to be done about human nature—it is good news for readers of Tom Vanderbilt’s new book. Traffic is not a dry examination of highway engineering; it’s a surprising, enlightening look at the psychology of human beings behind the steering wheels.
Read the rest of the article here or pick up a copy of the book and read more reviews here.
- Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (Amazon.com)
- Slow-Moving Vehicle (NY Times)
- How We Drive: Blog of Tom Vanderbilt (Official Site)
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Branden founded Broken Sidewalk in 2008 while practicing architecture in Louisville. He continued the site for seven years while living in New York City, returning to Louisville in 2016. Branden is a graduate of the College of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis, and has covered architecture, design, and urbanism for The Architect's Newspaper, Designers & Books, Inhabitat, and the American Institute of Architects.
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