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and from the car. The car has become the carapace, the
protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.
Even before the Volkswagen, observers above street level have
often noticed the near-resemblance of cars to shiny-backed
insects. In the age of the tactile oriented skin-diver, this hard
shiny carapace is one of the blackest marks against the
motorcar. It is for motorized man that the shopping plazas
have emerged. They are strange islands that make the
pedestrian feel friendless and disembodied. The car bugs him.
The car, in a word, has quite refashioned all of the spaces
that unite and separate men, and it will continue to do so for a
decade more, by which time the electronic successors to the
car will be manifest.