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is a danger to the modern city in terms of its contribution to air pollution, to huge road building investments which damage the city, and in the drying up of public transportation which increases difficulty in access to certain parts of the city.

G65 No modern society with any degree of consumer freedom has figured out how to control the impact of the automobile. In American cities this is now visible in a high level of air pollution... in huge investments in road building, which damages or replaces older parts of the city with their various benefits ol physical design and of complex integrated social structure, and which changes the open land around the city... in the drying up of public transportation... in the increasing difficulty of access to the older, inner parts of the city. Ibid. GLAZER, Nathan (1923 )

is a king on a vinyl bucket-seat throne, changing direction with the turn of a wheel, changing the climate with a flick of the button, changing the music with the switch of a dial.

a king on a vinyl bucket-seat throne, changing direction with the turn of a wheel, changing the climate with a flick of the button, changing the music with the switch of a dial.

is much less a cause than a symptom of our incompetence at urban planning.

Automobiles are often conveniently tagged as the villains responsible for the ills of cities and the disappointments and futilities of city planning. But the destructive effect of automobiles are much less a cause than a symptom of our incompetence at city building. Jane Jacobs

is now an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete.

The car has become... an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete.

is responsible for having dissolved the living tissue of the city. Its appetite for space is absolutely insatiable... moving and parked, it devours urban land, leaving the buildings as mere islands of habitable space in a sea of dangerous and ugly traffic.

F24 The automobile has not merely taken over the street, it has dissolved the living tissue of the city. Its appetite for space is absolutely insatiable... moving and parked, it devours urban land, leaving the buildings as mere islands of habitable space in a sea of dangerous and ugly traffic . . . Gas-filled, noisy and hazardous, our streets have become the most inhumane landscape in the world. The New York Times, May I, 1960

is responsible for the disintegration of communication, manners, and city life. Nothing could alter national character and morality more thoroughly than could the most absolute of tyrants.

The automobile, practical since 1906, was proceeding to disintegrate and stamp anew the pattern of communication, manners, and city life in the United States, by 1918... before long, men would begin to see that the automobile, and the mass production techniques which made its possible, could alter the national character and morality more thoroughly than could the most absolute of tyrants. As a mechanical Jacobin, it rivaled the dynamo. The productive process which made these vehicles cheap was still more subversive of the old ways than was the gasoline engine itself. Russell Kirk

is so pervasive in the US that our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.

Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.Lewis Mumford

 has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.

The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.

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