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

This is the story of how the car changed a city. The author 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. His is a fascianting journey through landscapes changed and cities redesigned by the car, of mayhem on the road and influenc in the world of politics, of communities challenges and the environment threatened and of an ongoing love affair with a machine. This book 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.