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accommodate them. Settlements had created the impulse for
exchange and for the increasing movement of raw material and
produce from countryside to processing centres, where there
was division of labor and specialist craft skills. Improvement of
wheel and road more and more brought the town to the
country in a reciprocal spongelike action of give-and-take. It is
a process we have seen in this century with the motorcar.
Great improvements in roads brought the city more and more
to the country. The road became a substitute for the country
by the time people began to talk about “taking a spin in the
country.” With superhighways the road became a wall between
man and the country. Then came the stage of the highway as
city, a city stretching continuously across the continent,
dissolving all earlier cities into the sprawling aggregates that
desolate their populations today.