Cities for Children with Tim Gill
The War on Cars
The War on Cars, LLC
4.9 • 937 Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Tim Gill is a London-based independent scholar, writer and consultant on childhood, and a global advocate for children's play and mobility. He is the author of Urban Playground: How Child-Friendly Urban Planning and Design Can Save Cities and No Fear: Growing Up in a Risk Averse Society.
We met Tim when he appeared on a panel with Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo that Sarah moderated during Climate Week in New York. When we heard what he has to say about cities and children, we knew that we had to have him on the show.
So we grabbed him before he could leave New York. We talked on a bench in City Hall Park on a weekday morning, so you can hear the sounds of a city that is waking up and going to work and school in the background. It was an appropriate setting for a chat about how we by making cities better for children, we make them better for everyone.
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| 0:00.0 | It's hard to believe that we are less than one month away from the publication of our new book, |
| 0:04.5 | Life After Cars, Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile. |
| 0:08.8 | We wrote this book because we felt a sense of urgency to reach beyond this podcast and go deeper than we ever could on the show. |
| 0:15.4 | In the book, you're going to find fresh stories, big ideas, and all kinds of tools for reimagining your community to make them |
| 0:22.7 | healthier, safer, and more connected. There's one thing we are asking of all of you. If you are |
| 0:28.2 | planning to buy the book, please consider pre-ordering it now. Pre-orders matter a lot. They tell |
| 0:33.9 | booksellers there's demand, they boost visibility, and they help the book reach |
| 0:37.8 | even more readers. To say thanks, we've got some really cool bonuses. If you pre-order before the |
| 0:43.8 | publication date of October 21st, you'll get access to a live virtual Q&A with me and Sarah and a special |
| 0:50.9 | guest, and you'll have a chance to submit questions in advance. You'll also get |
| 0:56.0 | a downloadable poster with all kinds of ideas and tips for how to make your community a safer |
| 1:01.9 | and healthier one. For our Patreon subscribers, you'll get those bonuses plus a few exclusives. |
| 1:08.3 | Number one, you'll get a signed bookplate, which you can stick and put right inside your |
| 1:12.3 | book, making it a signed copy. |
| 1:14.4 | You'll get an exclusive downloadable street sign that you can print out, hang on your |
| 1:19.7 | own street, or just put up wherever you want to spread the message about life after cars. |
| 1:24.5 | And we'll do a personalized video response response Sarah and I will answer one of your |
| 1:30.0 | questions in a video that you can keep for yourself or share on social. We really |
| 1:35.6 | believe that change isn't just possible, it's happening and that is something that |
| 1:39.8 | we have covered in this book. Together we can make the case loud and clear for our life after |
| 1:45.7 | cars. Go to lifeaftercars.com starting on October 1st to learn more about these pre-order bonuses. |
| 1:54.1 | And thanks for your support. |
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