NATS 1840 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Coevolution, Strip Mall
15 May 2017
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Nats 1840 lecture 19 cultural assimilation of the automobile. Science and technology studies: consider practice, or how technology is used. Cars and roads, technology and designers, not users. Co-evolution of highway networks and conservationist movement. Cars at turn of century, 40 mph top speed. Nature tourism promoted and profitable since middle of 19th century, automobile tourism movement, access to nature. Save the redwood league allied with nature tourism groups. Automobile a tool to get citizens in touch with nature, promoted forest preservation and unspoiled nature. Alliance between environmental groups and commercial forces in context: cars cheap, us very large, automobiles and access to forests, experience of nature first hand through the car, technology plays an enabling role, automobiles and pollution impacts. Positive association with respect to the environment in early 20th century. Technology and the experience of nature, trains: side windows, blurred foreground, flat landscape, spaces between objects, objects blurred together, technologies (tracks, poles, wires) in front.
