> Utrecht, like many other European cities, spent several postwar decades trying to make automobile use easier.<p>> The effort included building a four-lane highway over centuries-old canals, making space for parked cars on its narrow cobblestone streets, and planning for a highway that was to cross the medieval city’s cathedral square.<p>What better to do with history than learn from it?<p>Next step: see the similarities of our focus on airplanes to that view on cars and how it's not improving our lives, environment, or communities, but rather hurting them all.