car-free Europe

Jim heartfield jim at heartfield.demon.co.uk
Mon Sep 20 11:09:11 PDT 1999


In message <v0421010db40c0f66746d@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes
>[a celebration that James Heartfield will sit out, no doubt!]
>
>"Car-free day" highlights Europe's desperation over auto problems

My guess is that most of Europe's population will sit out the 'car-free day'.

Isn't it curious that the car has only become widely criticised at the point that it became cheap enough to become a working class consumption good, as opposed to a middle class luxury item?

Notable that most pedestrianised areas are sinking into economic depression, as well as being dirty and underserviced, like London's Covent Garden area, or Birmingham's Princes' Street. -- Jim heartfield



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