Letter: Diana, latest victim of the car culture

The Independent - London;  September 2, 1997 ;     125 words ...Letter: Diana, latest victim of the car culture Sir: We are hearing, quite rightly, of Diana, Princess of Wales's achievements in turning round public and political opinion on...

America's car culture is running out of gas

Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me.;  June 8, 2008 ;     700+ words ......didn't. (2): We're not at the end of car culture yet ... that's a few generations off...in not-quite-hindsight, that the U.S. car culture does not work. Meanwhile, more people...imagine a reasonable objection: "The car culture doesn't work? The car has made our lives...

In China, bicycles giving way to rising car culture

The Boston Globe;  November 27, 1997 ;     700+ words ......the allure and the convenience of the car culture. It is tempting for well-meaning Westerners...expressways. But the rise of China's car culture brings fears about the environmental...China, believes China's late embrace of car culture provides it with an opportunity to do...

Lots of Parking: Land Use in Car Culture.(Book review)

Urban History Review;  March 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ......Sculle. Lots of Parking: Land Use in Car Culture. Charlottesville: University of Virginia...their latest volume on the geography of car culture (a subject that previously took them...important dimensions to the study of both car culture and urban space. Indeed, in their hands...

'Car Culture' exhibit rolls into Cultural Center

Chicago Sun-Times;  June 9, 2006 ;     186 words ......Center explores that love affair and the contributions Chicago has made to the car culture of the nation. Allstate Insurance Company is presenting Chicago Car Culture, as part of its 75th anniversary celebration. The exhibit was organized by the...

Young people, dangerous driving and car culture.(Report)

Youth Studies Australia;  September 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......associated with hooning and other aspects of car culture, and also explores the purposes that...relationship between young people and car culture is a complex one and forms an interesting...broader sociological processes linked to car culture generally. Young people (18-25) are...

CAMPUS PROPOSAL MAY COLLIDE WITH 'CAR CULTURE'

Post-Tribune (IN);  November 1, 1992 ;     365 words ......run up against a pretty sizeable roadblock. It's called the "car culture." IU Transportation Director George Smerk says there must...anticipates resistance. "What it's up against, of course, is the car culture," he said. "If you want to keep people from using their cars...

IU PROPOSAL COULD COLLIDE WITH 'CAR CULTURE'

Post-Tribune (IN);  October 29, 1992 ;     373 words ......run up against a pretty sizeable roadblock. It's called the "car culture." IU Transportation Director George Smerk says there must...anticipates resistance. "What it's up against, of course, is the car culture," he said. "If you want to keep people from using their cars...

'Auto Show' Takes on New Meaning: Onview.com Curates 'Car Culture: The...

PR Newswire;  April 20, 2000 ;     624 words ......site, has curated an exhibition called Car Culture: The Automobile and Photography and...for cars, so we put the two together. Car Culture will include over 40 works spanning...world-famous Howard Greenberg Gallery, curated Car Culture with an eye towards both novice and...

Self-styled ride puts car culture to shame.

Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA);  July 24, 2006 ;     700+ words ......thudding on its stereo. Motors take a back seat in modern car culture to wheel covers, whale tails and decorative lighting, which...Import automobiles were as natural a choice for modern teenage car culture as the Model T was for teenagers in the 1950s. They're what...

Bicyclist delivers message about car culture

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  April 12, 2001 ;     700+ words ...Bicyclist delivers message about car culture By JENNIFER WEINER Philadelphia Inquirer Thursday, April 12...him into a sort of revolutionary, with strong beliefs about car culture and what it is doing to cities -- and to people's souls...

Lots of Parking: Land Use in a Car Culture.(Book Review)

Journal of Cultural Geography;  September 22, 2005 ;     670 words ...Lots of Parking: Land Use in a Car Culture. By John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle. Charlottesville, VA...0-8139-2266-6. The preface in Lots of Parking: Land Use in a Car Culture portends this is a book about parking and ... its impacts...

Jakle, John A., and Keith A. Sculle: Lots of Parking: Land Use in a Car...

History: Review of New Books;  January 1, 2005 ;     452 words ......John A., and Keith A. Sculle Lots of Parking: Land Use in a Car Culture Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press 293 pp., $34...of the urban infrastructure. Lots of Parking: Land Use in a Car Culture is divided into three parts, the first of which traces how...

Lots of Parking: Land Use in a Car Culture

Environmental History;  April 1, 2005 ;     591 words ...Lots of Parking: Land Use in a Car Culture. By John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle. Charlottesville: University...accounted for his success. In Lots of Parking: Land Use in a Car Culture, John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle have done the same, yielding...

Putting the brake on car culture

The Sunday Herald;  March 19, 2000 ;     700+ words ...Frankly, I have to say that Pat Kane's article, Why Our Lethal Car Culture Is Driving Me Insane (Seven Days, March 12) was wildly unrealistic...Thanks very much for Pat Kane's excellent column on the lethal car culture. I, too, do not drive, and have no desire to do so. I am originally...