2019/11/12 by Peter D. Norton · 1 citation
Business, Management and Accounting · Environmental Science · Arts and Humanities · #American History and Culture #American Environmental and Regional History #American Political and Social Dynamics
paper · doi:10.1017/s0963926819000956
openalex publication_date 2019/11/12 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/11
Abstract Generalizations about ‘car culture’ in the United States, and about American's ‘love affair with the automobile’, have concealed persistent values and practices among millions of Americans that do not suit such stereotypes. Car culture and the car's attractions are not denied. American society, however, is a complex of numerous subcultures, including many that resented and resisted the automobile's growing priority during the twentieth century. Such groups’ resistance to automobile domination has been neglected. Persistent advocacy for pedestrians’ interests is illustrated through numerous examples from the 1920s to the 1960s, the decades when ‘car culture’ rose to its apogee.