"This book by Alison Smithson is the result of observing the landscape on journeys from London to Wiltshire driving a Citroen DS. Everyone who has ever journeyed by car through rural areas in other European countries will be able to recognize his own experiences in these reminiscences, written and sketched. These descriptions try to develop new notions about the role of the car in architecture and town-planning, seen from the motor-way, the road, the street, and from the parking lot, up to the entrance of the house."-- from the Preface by Otto Das
In photographs, maps, sketches, and text in a unique Citroen-shaped format, Smithson records what she calls the “evolving sensibility of a passenger in a car to the Post-Industrial landscape” of the English countryside in the 1970s.
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