“How Cars Conquered Our Cities”
NORWICH – The Chenango County Historical Society will present a lecture by Dr. Brian Ladd on “How Cars Conquered Our Cities.” Free and open to the general public, the event begins at 7 p.m. on Thursday, at the Museum, 45 Rexford St. This event is made possible through Speakers in the Humanities, a program of the New York Council for the Humanities. Refreshments will be served following the lecture.
Dr. Ladd’s program considers how cities have been profoundly changed by our growing reliance on automobiles. Cars permitted motorists to go more places, more quickly and comfortably than ever before. But the individual motorist’s gain was not always a benefit to the community. Cars brought noise, fumes, and mortal danger, and they led us to rebuild our towns, which are now organized around highway strips, expressways and parking lots, rather than main streets and town squares and neighborhood sidewalks.
This illustrated lecture charts a century of literary, scholarly, and political reactions to the intrusion of cars into cities, using local, national, and international examples. It shows how the goal of traffic flow led to suburbs, neighborhoods, and entire cities being rebuilt around motor travel. The result has been a remarkable degree of mobility, on the one hand, and a near-complete dependence on cars, on the other. The lecture permits listeners to consider what has been gained and lost in our freeway-centered life.
Adjunct Research Associate, SUNY Albany Brian Ladd is a historian (Yale Ph.D.) who has written two books, plus a documentary film, on Berlin. His newest book, Autophobia: Love and Hate in the Automotive Age, has an American and international focus. He has taught history at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Union College, and the University at Albany (SUNY), and been a Fellow of the American Academy in Berlin. He lives in Guilderland, New York.
Since its launch in 1983, the Council’s Speakers in the Humanities program has linked distinguished scholars with a diverse audience, offering lectures on a broad range of topics. Each year, hundreds of cultural organizations and community groups take advantage of this opportunity to offer the very best in humanities scholarship to their audiences throughout New York State. All Speakers in the Humanities events are free and open to the general public.
The New York Council for the Humanities is a not-for-profit, independent affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Through statewide collaborations, and programs and services that encourage imaginative thinking and critical inquiry, the Council works to ensure that the humanities are present in the intellectual and cultural life of every New Yorker.
For more information contact the Chenango County Historical Society at 334-9227.
Dr. Ladd’s program considers how cities have been profoundly changed by our growing reliance on automobiles. Cars permitted motorists to go more places, more quickly and comfortably than ever before. But the individual motorist’s gain was not always a benefit to the community. Cars brought noise, fumes, and mortal danger, and they led us to rebuild our towns, which are now organized around highway strips, expressways and parking lots, rather than main streets and town squares and neighborhood sidewalks.
This illustrated lecture charts a century of literary, scholarly, and political reactions to the intrusion of cars into cities, using local, national, and international examples. It shows how the goal of traffic flow led to suburbs, neighborhoods, and entire cities being rebuilt around motor travel. The result has been a remarkable degree of mobility, on the one hand, and a near-complete dependence on cars, on the other. The lecture permits listeners to consider what has been gained and lost in our freeway-centered life.
Adjunct Research Associate, SUNY Albany Brian Ladd is a historian (Yale Ph.D.) who has written two books, plus a documentary film, on Berlin. His newest book, Autophobia: Love and Hate in the Automotive Age, has an American and international focus. He has taught history at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Union College, and the University at Albany (SUNY), and been a Fellow of the American Academy in Berlin. He lives in Guilderland, New York.
Since its launch in 1983, the Council’s Speakers in the Humanities program has linked distinguished scholars with a diverse audience, offering lectures on a broad range of topics. Each year, hundreds of cultural organizations and community groups take advantage of this opportunity to offer the very best in humanities scholarship to their audiences throughout New York State. All Speakers in the Humanities events are free and open to the general public.
The New York Council for the Humanities is a not-for-profit, independent affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Through statewide collaborations, and programs and services that encourage imaginative thinking and critical inquiry, the Council works to ensure that the humanities are present in the intellectual and cultural life of every New Yorker.
For more information contact the Chenango County Historical Society at 334-9227.
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