Remembering Roadside America - Preserving the Recent Past As Landscape and Place

Informationen zum Autor John A. Jakle is Emeritus Professor of Geography at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Keith A. Sculle is the former head of research and education at the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency. They have coauthored such books as America's Main Street Hotels: Transiency and Community in the Early Automobile Age; Motoring: The Highway Experience in America; Fast Food: Roadside Restaurants in the Automobile Age; and The Gas Station in America. Klappentext The use of cars and trucks over the past century has remade American geography. In this absorbing book, John Jakle and Keith Sculle ponder how 'Roadside America' might be remembered. In straightforward and lively prose, supplemented by copious illustrations - historic and modern photographs, advertising postcards, cartoons, roadmaps - they survey the ways in which automobility has transformed life in the US.

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• Autori: John Jakle, John A Jakle, John A. Jakle, John A./ Sculle Jakle, Keith Sculle, Keith A Sculle, Keith A. Sculle
• Editore: Univeristy of Tennessee Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 16.09.2011
• EAN: 9781572338234
• ISBN: 978-1-57233-823-4
• Pagine: 312
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Architettura