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With air transport comes a further disruption of the old
town-country complex that had occurred with wheel and road.
With the plane the cities began to have the same slender
relation to human needs that museums do. They became
corridors of showcases echoing the departing forms of
industrial assembly lines. The road is, then, used less and less
for travel, and more and more for recreation. The traveller now
turns to the airways, and thereby ceases to experience the act
of travelling. As people used to say that an ocean liner might
as well be a hotel in a big city, the jet traveller, whether he is
over Tokyo or New York, might just as well be in a cocktail
lounge so far as travel experience is concerned. He will begin to
travel only after he lands.
Meantime, the countryside, as oriented and fashioned by
plane, by highway, and by electric information gathering, tends