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- W1971544104 abstract "Brian Ladd's Autophobia is a broad, engagingly written synthesis of a century of automobile criticism. The author's goal is “to trace the triumph of the automobile through the eyes of those who hated or resisted it” (p. 8). Although most histories of the automobile discuss problems and critics, no work to date has made criticism its central focus, making Autophobia a welcome contribution to the literature. No car lover, Ladd does a laudable job presenting the views of the automobile's proponents as well. But the book's great strength is its multinational scope. Ladd surveys automobile problems and critics in Germany, France, Italy, Great Britain, and the United States. The book benefits from the author's evident travel in the countries he discusses. This comparative perspective is just what the literature needs. Ladd argues that experiences with the automobile in these countries have been remarkably similar. Autophobia's chapters are based on broad categorizations about automobile criticism encompassing multidecade periods. Within the chapters, Ladd treats specific criticisms, often moving back and forth between countries and decades. Historians who prefer explanations with greater attention to specificity about periods and places may be irritated by this approach, but it allows Ladd to better convey his main point. Chapter 1 reviews the similar negative reactions of nondrivers to the introduction of the automobile in the United Sates and Western Europe before World War II. Chapter 2 presents the views of often-elitist postwar critics of mass automobility. The next chapter discusses the implications of mass automobile ownership for urban areas and how people responded to the reshaping of cities to better accommodate automobile use. Chapter 4 focuses more narrowly on the “freeway revolts” that took place in cities around the world in the 1960s and 1970s, as urban residents fought, often successfully, to block or at least restrict the construction of urban freeways. Chapter 5 examines the seemingly compelling yet surprisingly ineffectual environment- and energybased criticisms of the automobile after 1970. The city looms large in Autophobia, as it did for many automobile critics." @default.
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- W1971544104 title "Autophobia: Love and Hate in the Automotive Age. By Brian Ladd. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. viii, 227 pp. $22.50, ISBN 978-0-226-46741-2.)" @default.
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