By Megan Green In the late 1800′s, as cities grew larger and
more crowded, the automobile become more and more of a necessity
to offset the unhealthy and malodorous pollution from horses.
Each horse could produce upwards of 35 pounds of waste per day,
not to mention the macabre detail that dead horses littered the
cities in the thousands per year. In 1903, William Phelps Eno
wrote the first traffic code in the world for the city of New
York and very soon the world was introduced to the Stop sign.
Several years after that, Henry Ford put the modern assembly
lines into practice, thus making the automobile cheaper and
accessible to a wider range of consumers. This all led to the
prevalence of automobile use and ownership facilitating the
migration of people from cities to newly created suburbs post-
World War II. Now, in year 2011, we are at a similar crossroads.
The trend has reversed; people are moving back to cities to
decreasing space and resources. The streets are once again
congested and, as a result, gener