In a sense the car has become a prosthetic, and though prosthetics are usually for injured or missing limbs, the auto-prosthetic is for a conceptually impaired body or a body impaired by the creation of a world that is no longer human in scale.
I came across that great Rebecca Solnit quote in an equally excellent article about journeying by foot. We have a collective amnesia that allows us to forget that cities are for people.
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