Transportsubstantiation

In suburbia, a human being becomes a car

In a piece about parking and perceptions of the built environment back last year, I came up with a line that I found amusing:

“In Catholicism, a piece of bread becomes the body of Christ. In suburbia, a human being becomes a car.”

And maybe that’s actually worth revisiting. It’s not a novel observation that in some ways motorists view their cars as prosth…