Sara’s Reviews > Car Country: An Environmental History > Status Update
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"By 1956, when Congress funded construction of the interstate highway system, nearly all of the basic patterns underpinning the creation of car-centered landscapes—as well as nearly all of the most significant environmental problems related to heavy car use—were firmly in place. With these changes, the United States became Car Country".
— Jan 18, 2016 01:46PM
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"Yet nature was everywhere present on city streets—albeit in a state of profound up-heaval—in the form of epidemic diseases, rotting garbage, piles of manure, smoky skies, polluted waterways, and occasional fires.¹
— Jan 19, 2016 03:18PM
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"The overwhelming tendency among critics, with a few important exceptions, has been to focus on cars rather than roads and on the behavior of drivers rather than the powerful forces shaping American land-use patterns."
— Jan 18, 2016 01:59PM
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"What Ford and his fellow automobile manufacturers helped invent—with help from countless others—was essentially a technological ecosystem, an intricate set of interconnected inventions, institutions, and behav-iors that by mid-century more or less defined the American way of life."
— Jan 18, 2016 11:19AM
