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Americans spend nearly an hour a day commuting to and from work, and many people find that their entire lives revolve around commuting and working, leaving no time for socializing and relaxing. College students are especially affected by long commutes and large distances, which can have severe impacts on academic performance.

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➜ References & Further Reading:
Happy City by Charles Montgomery
https://www.charlesmontgomery.ca/happ...

Fragile Neighborhoods by Seth Kaplan
https://sethkaplan.org/

Travel Time to Work in the United States
https://www.census.gov/library/public...

Stress That Doesn't Pay: The Commuting Paradox
https://www.jstor.org/stable/25195346

Most U.S. Workers Still Driving Alone
https://www.prb.org/resources/commuti....

Commute Impacts Academic Success
https://www.torontomu.ca/news-events/...

Undergraduate Commuter Students: Challenges and Struggles
https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ...

How Car Dependency Affects Social Connections
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...

Average US Household Size
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1...
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
https://www.statista.com/statistics/5...

Dispersed Social Networks
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...

Dutch Pandemic Commuting Survey
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...

Corridor vs Suite Dorms
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1974-2...

1950s Census Records
https://www.census.gov/library/storie...

➜ Timestamps:
0:00 Life is Commuting
1:32 Bad Land Use
3:13 Sponsor - Ground News
4:33 Car Dependency
5:30 Commuting Shouldn't Suck
6:46 Commuter Students
7:26 More Space But Less Connections
9:24 Meeting Friends Is Hard
11:12 Why College Campuses are nice
12:58 Controlling Social Interactions
14:17 Zoning Reform & Building Community
15:50 Conclusion

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