ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book seeks to demonstrate that if automobiles are so deeply implicated in our lives, then they must be factored into our heritage language, procedures, developments, systems, and processes. It provides explanatory guidance on how heritage preservationists might approach automobiles in conjunction with buildings, cultural landscapes, and what has emerged in recent years on intangible cultural heritage, using the charters of Venice, Nara, and Turin as reference points. The book deals with an examination of the dynamic interplay between the material automobile and the ways social systems respond to cars. It draws on whether the “continued use should be re-shifted from a need back to a want” regarding environmental and social sustainability. Automobiles have been an intrinsic part of 20th-century identity and will continue to evolve well into the 21st century.
