{"id":53420,"date":"2014-02-04T16:45:14","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T21:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=53420"},"modified":"2014-02-04T15:59:16","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T20:59:16","slug":"how-cars-conquered-our-cities-next-canalside-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=53420","title":{"rendered":"\u2018How Cars Conquered Our Cities\u2019 Next Canalside Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Auto-be-in-Canastota.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-53421\" alt=\"Auto be in Canastota\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Auto-be-in-Canastota.jpeg\" width=\"298\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Auto-be-in-Canastota.jpeg 298w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Auto-be-in-Canastota-150x120.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Canastota, NY \u2013 Feb. 2014) The second 2014 Canalside Talk \u201cHow Cars Conquered Our Cities\u201d will take place on Monday, Feb. 10, at 7 p.m. at the Canastota Public Library.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Historian Dr. Brian Ladd will present a visual PowerPoint program that is sponsored by the Canal Town Museum and the Library, with the support of the NY Council for the Humanities, and is free to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Cars are part of the larger history of transportation moving from canal to rail to highway. \u00a0The automobile permitted motorists to go more places, more quickly and comfortably. \u00a0The motorist&#8217;s gain was not always a benefit to the community. \u00a0Cars brought noise, fumes, and mortal danger, and they led us to rebuild our towns, which are now organized around highway strips and expressways and parking lots, rather than main streets and town squares and neighborhood sidewalks.<\/p>\n<p>This illustrated talk charts a century of reactions to the intrusion of cars into cities.\u00a0 It shows how the goal of traffic flow led to suburbs, neighborhoods, and entire cities being rebuilt around motor travel. \u00a0The lecture permits listeners to consider what has been gained and lost in our freeway-centered life.<\/p>\n<p>Ladd is an Adjunct Research Associate at SUNY Albany.<\/p>\n<p>He has written two books plus a documentary film on Berlin. \u00a0His newest book, Autophobia: \u00a0Love and Hate in the Automotive Age, has an American and international focus. \u00a0He has taught history at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Union College, and the University at Albany (SUNY), and has been a Fellow of the American Academy in Berlin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Canastota, NY \u2013 Feb. 2014) The second 2014 Canalside Talk \u201cHow Cars Conquered Our Cities\u201d will take place on Monday, Feb. 10, at 7 p.m. at the Canastota Public Library.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22367,65,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-libraries","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}