Asphalt Nation - How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take It Back

"Jane Holtz Kay's book has given us a profound way of seeing the automobile's ruinous impact on American life. Asphalt Nation is terrific."—Jane Jacobs, author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities

List of contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
The Late Motor Age: A Defining Decade 
Part I-Car Glut: A Nation in Lifelock
1 Bumper to Bumper 
2 The Geography of Inequity 
3 The Landscape of the Exit Ramp 
4 The Road to Environmental Ruin 
5 Harm to Health and Breath 
6 The Cost of the Car Culture 
Part II-Car Tracks: The Machine that Made the Land
7 Model T, Model City 
8 From Front Porch to Front Seat 
9 Driving Through the Depression 
1 0 The Asphalt Exodus 
11 Braking the Juggernaut 
12 The Three-Car Culture 
Part Ill-Car Free: From Dead End to Exit
13 None for the Road 
14 Zoning for Life 
15 Putting Transit on Track 
16 The Centering of America 
17 The De-Paving of America 
18 Righting the Price 
NOTES 
BIBLIOGRAPHY 
INDEX 

About the author

Jane Holtz Kay is the architecture and planning critic for The Nation and the author of Lost Boston (1980) and Preserving New England (1986).

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Jane Holtz Kay, Kay Jane Holtz
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.1998
• EAN: 9780520216204
• ISBN: 978-0-520-21620-4
• No. of pages: 440
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; USA, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Environmental Economics, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Transportation, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Environmental Economics, City & town planning - architectural aspects, United States of America, USA, Transport industries, History of the Americas, City and town planning: architectural aspects, Road Transport Industries