Car wars
Subtitle: how the car won our hearts and conquered our cities
By: Graeme Davison with Sheryl Yelland.
Contributors: Yelland, Sheryl.
Publisher: Allen & unwin
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Crows Nest, NSW
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
Subjects: Automobiles -- Social aspects -- Australia.; Automobiles -- Australia -- History.; Automobiles -- Australia -- Psychological aspects.
Description: Graeme Davison explores the Melbourne he knows so well to show us how the car entered our consciousness - as an object of desire, a symbol of status, a creator of freedoms, a shaper of sexual mores. His is a journey through landscapes changed and cities redesigned by the car, and a story of mayhem on the road and influence in the world of politics, of communities challenged and the environment threatened, and of an ongoing love affair with a machine.

"Graeme Davison, Australia's leading urban historian, explores the Melbourne he knows so well to show us how the car entered our national consciousness--as an object of desire, a status symbol, a creator of freedoms, a shaper of sexual mores." ... "Car Wars is a history of people, landscapes, conflict, engineering, social movements and the environment."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.