num_pages: 259
description: Focusing on how cities have been torn down and remade based on the needs of the automobile and wars are fought to keep fuel tanks filled this consideration looks closely at the countrys obsession with cars. The argument contends that the automobiles ascendance is inextricably linked to several factorsfrom capitalism and involved corporate malfeasance to political intrigue backroom payoffs and media manipulation. The discussion also cites the elements of racism academic corruption third world coups secret armies environmental destruction and even war stating that when the domination of cars is challenged capitalism is as well. Comparing studies in more than a dozen U.S. cities this gritty anti-car road-trip story provides a unique observation for all those who wish to escape the clutches of auto insanity.
language: English
title: Stop Signs: Cars and Capitalism on the Road to Economic, Social and Ecological Decay
publisher: Fernwood Publishing