hbons, 1 month ago

@straphanger my town!

straphanger, 1 month ago

Lewis Mumford put it another way:

"The automobile city is the anti-city which annihilates the city wherever it collides with it."
—The City in History.

straphanger, 1 month ago

Here's John Marston Fitch, in the NYTimes, in 1960:

"The automobile has dissolved the living tissue of the city. Its appetite for space is absolutely insatiable; moving & parked, it devours urban land, leaving buildings as mere islands of habitable space in a sea of dangerous & ugly traffic."