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Asphalt nation: how the automobile took over america and how we ...America asphalt automobile back can it nation over take took we. with "It took a village" - I'm not making this up - "to raise this book." "Our transportation is a tangle," Kay writes, "our lives and landscape strangled by the umbilical cord of the car." Cars are bad because they are a means of "instant gratification," which we all know is the modern American vice par excellence. "The licentious motor vehicle" allows for "unleashed consumption." The car is a "voracious icon" of "hypermobility," an agent of "spatial greed," an "accomplice" in the rise of Kentucky Fried Chicken and Taco Bell. We need to supplant the car culture, she concludes, because it would be good for our "state of being." We even get a close of postmodern feminism in the mix. Independent mobility is a boon to women, you say? Not only is this thinking like a man, according to Kay, but "it is a false form of consciousness that fails to assess women's enslavement to the motor vehicle." The only anti-auto cliche missing from this book is the old chestnut about the alleged 1940s conspiracy by General Motors and other auto-related companies to put L.A.'s beloved Red Cars out of business (though the demise of the Red Cars is duly lamented). But while this standard myth is absent, Kay makes up for it with several new whoppers of her own. Car vibration causes muscular and skeletal damage, for example. And those big urban riots in the 1960s that have baffled social scientists for so long? "Freeway construction" was "a major cause." Buybacks of old cars to reduce air pollution are bad - because people will buy new cars. Japan, she thinks, is more competitive than the United Sta |
Jstor: asphalt nation: how the automobile took over america, and ...OrldwideCategories: Ecology, Evolution, Environment; Urban Studies; American Studies; Technology & Society; Public Policy; United States History; Geography; Environment Description About the Author Related Books Links "Asphalt Nation largely succeeds in proving that it is possible to get where we are going without destroying where we live. . . . A well-written, even dramatic, volume that may persuade many readers to hop onto the bandwagon."--Kenneth T. Jackson, New York Times Book Review "Asphalt Nation concludes with a fervent plea for zoning-enforced density, subsidized mass transit, a moratorium on road-building, and higher gas and other car-related taxes to restore pedestrian life to our inner cities."--Ned Cramer, Architecture "Jane Holtz Kay's book has given us a profound way of seeing the automobile's ruinous impact on American life. Asphalt Nation is terrific."--Jane Jacobs, author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities DESCRIPTION (back to top)Asphalt Nation is a powerful examination of how the automobile has ravaged America's cities and landscape over the past 100 years together with a compelling strategy for reversing our automobile dependency. Jane Holtz Kay provides a history of the rapid spread of the automobile and documents the huge subsidies commanded by the highway lobby, to the detriment of once-efficient forms of mass transportation. Demonstrating that there are economic, political, architectural, and personal solutions to the problem, she shows that radical change is entirely possible. This book is essential reading for everyone interested in th |
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