Automobile dependence. Symptoms, analyses, diagnosis, treatment, by Gabriel Dupuy (1999)

Why and how has the car become an indispensable mode of transportation in most countries of the world? The book’s goal is summed up by the keywords in its title: to conceptualize the notion of automobile dependence, to characterize the social and spatial dimensions of this phenomenon and to discuss what leeway and tools public authorities have in seeking to regulate it.