Cars are one of the most significant human creations. They changed our cities. They changed our lives. They changed everything. But in the next thirty years, th

The reach of the car today is almost universal, and its effect on landscapes, cityscapes, cultures indeed, on the very fabric of the modern world is profound. C

Early to mid-twentieth-century America was the heyday of a car culture that has been called an "automobile utopia." In American Autopia, Gabrielle Esperdy exami

"Flat-out one of the most interesting books I've read in years. To say that a book about California might rank with Kevin Starr's Americans and the California D

Originally published: London: Allen Lane, 1971.