Comments on: André Gorz, “The Social Ideology of the Motorcar” http://www.bakfiets-en-meer.nl/2009/10/01/andre-gorz-the-social-ideology-of-the-motorcar/ City cycling news & opinions from WorkCycles in Amsterdam Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:28:33 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: todd http://www.bakfiets-en-meer.nl/2009/10/01/andre-gorz-the-social-ideology-of-the-motorcar/comment-page-1/#comment-4331 todd Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:35:50 +0000 http://www.bakfiets-en-meer.nl/?p=1451#comment-4331 I think Gorz has it right for cities developed before the automobile, but a very large number of people in the US especially live in places literally designed to create problems that only near-universal household car ownership can "solve." They are an effectively manufactured need. This is why I prefer Ivan Illich's contemporary analysis of the same predicament, as he emphasizes the power of cars to "shape a city in their image:" "Cars create distance. Speedy vehicles of all kinds render space scarce. They drive wedges of highways into populated areas, and then extort tolls on the bridge over the remoteness between people that was manufactured for their sake. " and is there any more beautiful academic poetry about bicycles than this? http://clevercycles.com/energy_and_equity/#degofs I think Gorz has it right for cities developed before the automobile, but a very large number of people in the US especially live in places literally designed to create problems that only near-universal household car ownership can “solve.” They are an effectively manufactured need. This is why I prefer Ivan Illich’s contemporary analysis of the same predicament, as he emphasizes the power of cars to “shape a city in their image:” “Cars create distance. Speedy vehicles of all kinds render space scarce. They drive wedges of highways into populated areas, and then extort tolls on the bridge over the remoteness between people that was manufactured for their sake. ”

and is there any more beautiful academic poetry about bicycles than this? http://clevercycles.com/energy_and_equity/#degofs

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