What is a Good Life? #182 - Cities That Make Us Happier with Lior Steinberg
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Mark McCartney discusses urban happiness and city design with Lior Steinberg, exploring the impact of car-centric planning.
In this episode of What is a Good Life , host Mark McCartney sits down with Lior Steinberg , a Rotterdam-based urban planner and co-founder of Humankind, a multidisciplinary team working toward urban happiness for all. Lior is also the author of the children's book The Car That Wanted to Be a Bike . Together they unpack why so many cities remain trapped in car-centric design decades after urbanist Jane Jacobs first warned against it. They talk about the "sidewalk ballet," how children's toys teach us to want cars, the surprising parallel between car culture and cigarette smoking, Barcelona's superblocks, and why trees are the best climate technology we already have. This is a thought-provoking conversation on how often change feels impossible until it is here. For more of Lior Steinberg's work: Humankind: https://www.humankind.city/ Personal Website: https://steinberg.nu/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/liorsteinberg/ For more from Mark McCartney: Newsletter: https://www.whatisagood.life/ Website: https://www.mmcleadership.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-mccartney-14b0161b4/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ @whatisagoodlife3875
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