Remembering Roadside America Preserving the Recent Past as Landscape and Place

The use of cars and trucks over the past century has remade American geography—pushing big cities ever outward toward suburbanization, spurring the growth of some small towns while hastening the decline of others, and spawning a new kind of commercial landscape marked by gas stations, drive-in resta...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Jakle, John A. (-)
Otros Autores: Sculle, Keith A.
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press 2011.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Sumario:The use of cars and trucks over the past century has remade American geography—pushing big cities ever outward toward suburbanization, spurring the growth of some small towns while hastening the decline of others, and spawning a new kind of commercial landscape marked by gas stations, drive-in restaurants, motels, tourist attractions, and countless other retail entities that express our national love affair with the open road. By its very nature, this landscape is ever changing, indeed ephemeral. What is new quickly becomes old and is soon forgotten. In this absorbing.
Notas:Description based upon print version of record.
Descripción Física:310 p.
Formato:Forma de acceso: World Wide Web.
ISBN:9781572338333