The reach of the car today is almost universal, and its effect on
landscapes, cityscapes, cultures - indeed, on the very fabric of
the modern world - is profound. Cars have brought benefits to
individuals in terms of mobility and expanded horizons, but the
cost has been very high in terms of damage to the environment and
the consumption of precious resources. Despite the growing belief
that a Faustian price is now being paid for the freedom cars have
bestowed on us, we are none the less manufacturing them in ever
greater numbers.
"Autopia" is the first book to explore the culture of the motor car
in the widest possible sense. Featuring newly commissioned essays
by writers, critics, historians, artists and film-makers, as well
as reprinting key texts, it examines the effect of the car
throughout the world, including the USA, Western and Eastern
Europe, Japan, China, Cuba, India and South Africa. In this book
the car is treated neither as a technological fetish object nor as
an instrument of danger. Instead, it is examined as a hugely
important determinant of 20th-century culture, neither wholly good
nor an unmitigated disaster, and certainly endlessly fascinating.
Contributors include Michael Bracewell, Ziauddin Sardar, Al Rees,
Martin Pawley, Donald Richie and Peter Hamilton. Key texts by
Marshall Berman, Jane Jacobs, Roland Barthes, Marc Auge and others.
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