Car Wars: How the Car Won our Hearts and Conquered our Cities

by Graeme Davison, Sheryl Yelland

This is the story of how the car changed a society.

Graeme Davison, Australia s leading urban historian, 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 fascinating journey through landscapes changed and cities redesigned by the car, 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.

Car Wars is a history of people, politics, landscapes, conflict, engineering, social movements and the environment. It is a story that is erudite, illuminating and elegantly told.

Genres: History, Nonfiction, Philosophy

328 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2004

Reviews

[Jane · Rating 3 out of 5]

If you're interested in Melbourne, transport and social and environmental issues, you'll probably be interested in this. Take one or two of those out of the equation, and you're not going to have as much fun.