HUMA 3697 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Karl Benz, Vanadium, Resource Depletion
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Discussing white flight-poor people displaced by rich people leaving their communities and displacing them in turn, causing more poverty. Bigger roads: increased ownership of cars and also due to the time frame of the 50"s (cold. Tourism-more roads and cars, making it easier for people to go all over the place, infrastructure increased due to increased demand. Big three took up the entire car market in n. america, giant monopoly. They"re are systems in place keeping the car central to every facet of life-page 46-the car has come to be locked together with resource depletion and oil, etc. For this to change, the whole system has to change in turn. Impact of the automobile on the 20th century: It"s been said, multiple times by various big 3 executives is that they build cars for their market and not the other way around. The north american car manufacturing is moving outside of the.
