The Last Pedestrians: Albert Kahn, Diego Rivera and Edsel Ford in Detroit: Places: Design Observer

The Last Pedestrians: Albert Kahn, Diego Rivera and Edsel Ford in Detroit: Places: Design Observer
The story of the automobile — like the story of the city of Detroit — is a tale of unwitting eternal returns. At every turn the inventors of modern life — of its machines, its aspirations — seemed unable or unwilling to grasp the meaning of what they were in the process of creating and unleashing, and what they were thus undoing and destroying.