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Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take It Back
Jane Holtz Kay
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Description for Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take It Back
paperback. An examination of how the automobile has ravaged America's cities and landscape in the 20th century together with a strategy for reversing America's automobile dependency. Num Pages: 440 pages, 23 black-and-white photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AMVD; HBJK; HBLW; KCN; KNGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 513.
Asphalt Nation is a powerful examination of how the automobile has ravaged America's cities and landscape over the past 100 years together with a compelling strategy for reversing our automobile dependency. Jane Holtz Kay provides a history of the rapid spread of the automobile and documents the huge subsidies commanded by the highway lobby, to the detriment of once-efficient forms of mass transportation. Demonstrating that there are economic, political, architectural, and personal solutions to the problem, she shows that radical change is entirely possible. This book is essential reading for everyone interested in the history of our relationship with the ... Read more
Asphalt Nation is a powerful examination of how the automobile has ravaged America's cities and landscape over the past 100 years together with a compelling strategy for reversing our automobile dependency. Jane Holtz Kay provides a history of the rapid spread of the automobile and documents the huge subsidies commanded by the highway lobby, to the detriment of once-efficient forms of mass transportation. Demonstrating that there are economic, political, architectural, and personal solutions to the problem, she shows that radical change is entirely possible. This book is essential reading for everyone interested in the history of our relationship with the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
Number of Pages
440
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520216204
SKU
V9780520216204
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About Jane Holtz Kay
Jane Holtz Kay is the architecture and planning critic for The Nation and the author of Lost Boston (1980) and Preserving New England (1986).
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