> > Gar, > This sounds entirely reasonable. But the 4 items you identify are HUGE! I > submit that there is not a sufficient acknowledgment of how revolutionary > these changes are. Example you give up personal automobiles, you give up the > dream of owning a nice suburban home with lawns and a large backyard with a > 20-30 mi commute for work etc etc. > -raghu.
No, the suburbs in sense you mean were invented before the auto, based on the train. Thorne Smith (upon whose novels the Topper series was based) devoted a fair portion of his comic novels to satirizing commuters, by which he meant people who rode trains. You can also find Bernard Shaw essays, written when the automobile was a luxury for the few defending the suburb as the pinnacle of civilization. (Of course the suburb in a more general sense goes back to the invention of the city. Cities have always attracted outskirts. ) _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
