according to Wilk, the automobile and the elevator have been locked in a “secret war” for over a century, with cars making it possible for people to spread horizontally, encouraging sprawl and suburbia, and elevators pushing them toward life in dense clusters of towering vertical columns.
Leon Neyfakh quoting Daniel Levinson Wilk in How the elevator transformed America for The Boston Globe. (via blech)
The Committee to Nuke Elysium 