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| Acknowledgments | ix | |
| Foreword | x | |
| Preface | xiii | |
| Introduction: What Does It Mean to Divorce Your Car? | 1 | |
| Part 1 | Love's Been Blind: How We Ended Up Married to Cars | 7 |
| 1 | Falling Head Over Wheels: The Advent of Cars | 8 |
| 2 | Other Suitors Drop by the Wayside: The Decline of Non-Car Transport | 22 |
| 3 | The Possessive Auto Takes Over the Landscape: The Proliferation of Roads and Suburbs | 32 |
| 4 | Keeping the Romance Alive: The Role of Marketing and Advertising | 44 |
| 5 | This Isn't Love, This Is Addiction!: The Relationship Today | 54 |
| Part 2 | Grounds for Divorce: Why Our Automotive Marriage is On the Rocks | 63 |
| 6 | Smoke Gets in Our Eyes: The Damage Done to Air | 64 |
| 7 | Cleaning Up After the Car: Oil Spills and Other Environmental Messes | 77 |
| 8 | The Little Bad Habits That Drive Us Crazy: Miscellaneous Drawbacks of Living with Cars | 87 |
| 9 | Not a Cheap Date: The Real Cost of Cars | 101 |
| 10 | The Greatest Cost: The Toll from Car Crashes | 114 |
| Part 3 | How to Divorce Your Car: Let Me Count the Ways ... | 125 |
| 11 | Just Walk Out!: Using Your Feet Instead of Your Car | 126 |
| 12 | You'll Look Sweet upon the Seat: Bicycles for Transportation | 145 |
| 13 | Let Someone Else Take You for a Ride: Transit and Other Forms of Shared Transportation | 164 |
| 14 | On the Rebound: Alternative Fuels | 180 |
| 15 | Long-Distance Relationships: Telecommunications | 193 |
| 16 | Get Support: Social and Political Strategies for Ending Car Addiction | 202 |
| 17 | Play the Field: The Spice of Transportation Variety | 219 |
| 18 | Car-Dependent No More: Ending Auto Dominance | 233 |
| Resources | 243 | |
| Notes | 264 | |
| Index | 294 |
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Eugene Rader
reviewed Divorce Your Car!: Ending the Love Affair With the Automobile on January 18, 2021
Divorce Your Car!: Ending the Love Affair With the Automobile
3.75 stars.
Alvord details a fascinating history of the car and how modern societies have accommodated them at the expense of other transport options and the health and wellbeing of citizens.
The author then shares options to reduce or eliminate dependence on the car, including walking, biking, car-sharing, public transport, etc.
Overall, a great book, though there was a bit too much number-data for me, and toward the end it started to feel a bit long-winded and repetitive.
Note: I was discouraged to read the constant comparison to marital divorce. The author is divorced herself and clearly views it as a good thing. I'm morally opposed to divorce, so those bits made me cringe. Getting rid of a car is not at all similar to divorcing a spouse, and the analogy served to cheapen the very serious severing of human relationships.
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