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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