Publication Date
12-3-2018
Abstract
This article explores the history of automobility as ideology, its effect on individuals and its possible future. In the USA in the early 20th century the automobile served to solve the crisis of individualism, created by Taylorism and the rise of the scientific method. To the people of the time the car was associated with freedom and individuality. Freedom through the automobile however was and would never be universally accessible. Furthermore examining the real life consequences of increasing mobility reveals unforeseen effects, mainly pollution, traffic and fragmentation of society. This paper proposes adoption of programs favoring sustainable modes of transportation and a reduction of unhealthy automobility, in order to combat progressing pollution of the environment and fragmentation of society.
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Recommended Citation
Koch, Lukas, "Automobility and the Future of Transport" (2018). English Department: Traveling American Modernism (ENG 366, Fall 2018). 16.
https://research.library.kutztown.edu/englisheng366/16
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