The Auto Community

The community of the Automobile. Part 1

Whatever happened to the traditional community elements? The churches, the sports facilities, the civic centers, the piazzas? They have been bastardized and pushed to the background. The churches have become drive thru, the sports facilities have become parking lots and nascar tracks, the educational facilities have become theaters, and the realm of the commercial is left to McDonald's and company.

And how do we interact? We have become isolated. Each individual in a personal bubble. How would we interact when not physically separated by a ton of steel and plastic? How can pedestrians expect to interact comfortably when the pedestrian environment has all but been destroyed?

The city has been banished and is fading from sight and memory,mearly a part of the background. It has been replaced by a repetitive environment.