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Apr29
“ The end product [of Suburbia] is an encapsulated life, spent more and more either in a motor car or within the cabin of darkness before a television set…
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Lewis Mumford, The City in History (1961) via theurbanist.
This is how it seems to work in parts of Atlanta: culturally and hermetically sealed bubbles in a sea of socioeconomic chaos. Valet parking is common here not so much because of limited space, it seems, but because it’s discomfiting to walk from your car to your upscale restaurant and be accosted by the urban poor.