THE AUTOMOBILE ERA: A CULTURAL ANALYSIS. IN: DELIVERING SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT. A SOCIAL SCIENCE PERSPECTIVE

The study's contention is that the urban crises that manifest themselves in many different ways have at least one significant common root: the increasing reliance on the automobile. The automobile has become the only means of transportation by which every part of an urban area can be reached. Additionally, metropolitan activity and land use patterns have become so dispersed that neither the automobile nor any public transit system can furnish the mobility required by every individual to function with reasonable ease in the activities their social, economic and physical well being demands. The study argues that the transportation crisis is a crisis of overabundance, where the affluent, the only fully mobile ones, run from one activity to another, in search for privacy, non-confrontation and peace, until there is realization that people need not just transportation but collocation as well, forced, peaceful togetherness where one can be both passive observer and active participant.

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• Authors:
  • Schaeffer, K H
  • Sclar, E
• Publication Date: 2003

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 117-126
• Serial:
  • Publication of: Elsevier Science Publishers BV
  • Publisher: Elsevier

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Accessibility; Automobiles; Economic factors; Land use; Mobility; Ownership; Social class; Social factors; Sustainable development; Urban transportation
• Subject Areas: Economics; Highways; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00937955
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0080442064
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 14 2003 12:00AM