The privatisation of public space in the form of the car continues the erosion of neighbourhood and community that defines the metropolis. Everywhere becomes the same as everywhere else.
Community becomes commodity - a shopping village, sedated and under constant surveillance.
The desire for community is then fulfilled elsewhere, through spectacle, sold to us in simulated form. The real street, in this scenario, is sterile. A place to move through not to be in. It exists only as an aid to somewhere else - through a shop window, billboard or petrol tank.