David Zipper March 14, 2025 2025, CityLab The Dark Prophet of Car-Clogged Cities David Zipper March 14, 2025 2025, CityLab 70 years ago, Lewis Mumford warned that urban highways would be a disaster. We should’ve listened.
David Zipper November 26, 2024 CityLab, 2024 In Italy’s Motor City, Car-Free Options Are Growing David Zipper November 26, 2024 CityLab, 2024 Turin, Italy’s automaking hub, is falling out of love with cars
David Zipper September 2, 2024 2024, The Verge What a 160-year-old theory about coal predicts about our self-driving future David Zipper September 2, 2024 2024, The Verge Even if self-driving cars work perfectly, they're likely to increase emissions and crash deaths
David Zipper August 28, 2024 2024, Slate, Featured How America Can Break Its Highway Addiction David Zipper August 28, 2024 2024, Slate, Featured Here's how the US can kick its wasteful, destructive habit of building ever-wider highways
David Zipper August 26, 2024 2024, CityLab A Loud Warning From the Past About Living With Cars David Zipper August 26, 2024 2024, CityLab For over a century, blaring car noises have frayed the nerves of urban residents. Will they ever stop?
David Zipper August 1, 2024 2024, Fast Company How fast can a car go from 0 to 60? It really doesn’t matter David Zipper August 1, 2024 2024, Fast Company “0-60 mph” is a car metric that needs to die.
David Zipper June 17, 2024 2024, Fast Company How GM’s brilliant little car kicked off an EV boom 30 years ago David Zipper June 17, 2024 2024, Fast Company A generation ago, GM built a revolutionary EV — and then killed it.
David Zipper April 2, 2024 2024, CityLab Looking for a Place to Sit Down in the City David Zipper April 2, 2024 2024, CityLab On William Whyte’s timeless lessons about the social lives of urban spaces
David Zipper January 24, 2024 CityLab, 2024 The Town That Took Downtown Renewal to the Next Level David Zipper January 24, 2024 CityLab, 2024 Morristown, TN built elevated sidewalks through its downtown — but lifting pedestrians above traffic has been a mixed blessing.
David Zipper November 14, 2023 2023, CityLab How Cars Transformed Criminal Justice in the US David Zipper November 14, 2023 2023, CityLab I spoke with author and professor Spencer Headworth about how cars have upended law enforcement.
David Zipper April 27, 2023 2023, CityLab Anatomy of an ‘American Transit Disaster’ David Zipper April 27, 2023 2023, CityLab Policymakers — not just cars — played a central role in the decline of US transit
David Zipper February 24, 2023 2023, Fast Company The Blatant Greenwashing of SUVs David Zipper February 24, 2023 2023, Fast Company For decades, carmakers have tried to convince us that SUVs and nature go hand in hand. They don’t.
David Zipper January 10, 2023 Slate, 2023 Elon Musk Went From Being Like Henry Ford in a Good Way to a Bad Way David Zipper January 10, 2023 Slate, 2023 The rhyming history of bigoted, self-destructive car tycoons
David Zipper February 15, 2022 2022, CityLab Why Mistakes Get Made David Zipper February 15, 2022 2022, CityLab A discussion with Jessie Singer, author of the new book There Are No Accidents
David Zipper January 6, 2022 2022, Slate Stop Obsessing Over Dutch and Danish Bike Lanes David Zipper January 6, 2022 2022, Slate Idealizing European infrastructure won’t make North American cities any less dependent on cars.
David Zipper October 29, 2021 2021, CityLab As E-Bikes Speed Up, a Policy Dilemma Looms David Zipper October 29, 2021 2021, CityLab E-bikes are getting faster. Cities aren’t ready.
David Zipper October 22, 2021 2021, Featured, Washington Post Five Myths About Highways David Zipper October 22, 2021 2021, Featured, Washington Post Why five common myths about highways are just that — myths.
David Zipper October 12, 2021 2021, CityLab The Dangerous Promise of the Self-Driving Car David Zipper October 12, 2021 2021, CityLab My Q&A with historian Peter Norton about his new book, Autonorama
David Zipper September 28, 2021 CityLab, 2021 The Unstoppable Appeal of Highway Expansion David Zipper September 28, 2021 CityLab, 2021 Widening highways always fails to reduce congestion. Why do states keep doing it?
David Zipper May 19, 2021 2021, CityLab When Cities Say No to New Transportation Technology David Zipper May 19, 2021 2021, CityLab States and the federal government are removing the ability of urban residents to manage vehicles on their streets.
