even next-door neighbors became strangers. This is the story 
of the motorcar, and it has not much longer to run. The tide of 
taste and tolerance has turned, since TV, to make the hot-car 
medium increasingly tiresome. Witness the portent of the 
crosswalk, where the small child has power to stop a cement 
truck. The same change has rendered the big city unbearable to 
many who would no more have felt that way ten years ago 
than they could have enjoyed reading MAD .

     The continuing power of the car medium to transform the 
patterns of settlement appears fully in the way in which the 
new urban kitchen has taken on the same central and multiple 
social character as the old farm kitchen. The farm kitchen had 
been the key point of entry to the farmhouse, and had become 
the social centre, as well. The new suburban home again makes 
the kitchen the centre and, ideally, is localized for access to