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Author : Jean Labatut
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)
Download or read book Highways in Our National Life written by Jean Labatut and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark H. Rose
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9780870496714
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (967 download)
Download or read book Interstate written by Mark H. Rose and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expansion of the 1979 edition, which covered 1941-56, examining the recent shift of power in the politics of the interstate-and-defense system, from the national to the local level, and from scientific to political elites. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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Total Pages : 654 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Highways and Agricultural Engineering, Current Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : National Research Council (U.S.). Highway Research Board
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Highway Finance written by National Research Council (U.S.). Highway Research Board and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Public Roads Bureau
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Total Pages : 682 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Highways, Current Literature written by Public Roads Bureau and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John A. Jakle
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820330280
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Motoring written by John A. Jakle and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Motoring unmasks the forces that shape the American driving experience--commercial, aesthetic, cultural, mechanical--as it takes a timely look back at our historically unconditional love of motor travel. Focusing on recreational travel between 1900 and 1960, John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle cover dozens of topics related to drivers, cars, and highways and explain how they all converge to uphold that illusory notion of release and rejuvenation we call the "open road." Jakle and Sculle have collaborated on five previous books on the history, culture, and landscape of the American road. Here, with an emphasis on the driver's perspective, they discuss garages and gas stations, roadside tourist attractions, freeways and toll roads, truck stops, bus travel, the rise of the convenience store, and much more. All the while, the authors make us think about aspects of driving that are often taken for granted: how, for instance, the many lodging and food options along our highways reinforce the connection between driving and "freedom" and how, by enabling greater speeds, highway engineers helped to stoke motorists' "blessed fantasy of flight." Although driving originally celebrated freedom and touted a common experience, it has increasingly become a highly regulated, isolated activity. The motive behind America's first embrace of the automobile--individual prerogative--still substantially obscures this reality. "Americans did not have the automobile imposed on them," say the authors. Jakle and Sculle ask why some of the early prophetic warnings about our car culture went unheeded and why the arguments of its promoters resonated so persuasively. Today, the automobile is implicated in any number of environmental, even social, problems. As the wisdom of our dependence on automobile travel has come into serious question, reassessment of how we first became that way is more important than ever.
Author : Gijs Mom
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1782383786
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (823 download)
Download or read book Atlantic Automobilism written by Gijs Mom and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our continued use of the combustion engine car in the 21st century, despite many rational arguments against it, makes it more and more difficult to imagine that transport has a sustainable future. Offering a sweeping transatlantic perspective, this book explains the current obsession with automobiles by delving deep into the motives of early car users. It provides a synthesis of our knowledge about the emergence and persistence of the car, using a broad range of material including novels, poems, films, and songs to unearth the desires that shaped our present “car society.” Combining social, psychological, and structural explanations, the author concludes that the ability of cars to convey transcendental experience, especially for men, explains our attachment to the vehicle.
Author : Claudette Stager
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9781572334670
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (346 download)
Download or read book Looking Beyond the Highway written by Claudette Stager and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking beyond the Highway is an examination of road history and roadside attractions specific to the South. Focused in part on numerous aspects of thematerial culture landscape of the Dixie Highway, the essays consider the politics of roadbuilding, roadside entertainment, the buildings and businesses one might encounter along the road, and regional adaptations to the needs and desires of northern tourists. Following the Dixie Highway from southern Illinois to Florida with sidetrips down other southern roads, the essays cover a wide variety of subjects, many of which will resonate with anyone who has ever lived in or vacationed in the South: Harrison Mayes's “Get Right With God” signs; the park-and-pray craze of outdoor drive-in church services; the rise and demise of brick highways; the fierce political battle over the route of the Dixie Highway; beach music and the evolution of motel architecture in Myrtle Beach; Florida's early tourist towers; and the commercial development of Tennessee caves as tourist attractions. Covering a landscape that includes Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, Indiana, Virginia, Arkansas, Ohio, Kentucky, Alabama, and Illinois, the anthology shows that there was and still is a distinctive southern culture and how roads have influenced that culture. As lively as they are diverse, thearticles provide a solid background for understanding roadside ephemera that have disappeared or are quickly disappearing. Ranging from the serious to the light-hearted and including descriptions of American road and roadside icons to kitsch, the book will appeal to anyone with an interest in road history and roadside architecture.
Author : Christopher W. Wells
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295804475
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)
Download or read book Car Country written by Christopher W. Wells and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2013-05-15 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most people in the United States, going almost anywhere begins with reaching for the car keys. This is true, Christopher Wells argues, because the United States is Car Country—a nation dominated by landscapes that are difficult, inconvenient, and often unsafe to navigate by those who are not sitting behind the wheel of a car. The prevalence of car-dependent landscapes seems perfectly natural to us today, but it is, in fact, a relatively new historical development. In Car Country, Wells rejects the idea that the nation's automotive status quo can be explained as a simple byproduct of an ardent love affair with the automobile. Instead, he takes readers on a tour of the evolving American landscape, charting the ways that transportation policies and land-use practices have combined to reshape nearly every element of the built environment around the easy movement of automobiles. Wells untangles the complicated relationships between automobiles and the environment, allowing readers to see the everyday world in a completely new way. The result is a history that is essential for understanding American transportation and land-use issues today. Watch the book trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48LTKOxxrXQ
Author : Cotten Seiler
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226745651
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Republic of Drivers written by Cotten Seiler and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-05-15 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rising gas prices, sprawl and congestion, global warming, even obesity—driving is a factor in many of the most contentious issues of our time. So how did we get here? How did automobile use become so vital to the identity of Americans? Republic of Drivers looks back at the period between 1895 and 1961—from the founding of the first automobile factory in America to the creation of the Interstate Highway System—to find out how driving evolved into a crucial symbol of freedom and agency. Cotten Seiler combs through a vast number of historical, social scientific, philosophical, and literary sources to illustrate the importance of driving to modern American conceptions of the self and the social and political order. He finds that as the figure of the driver blurred into the figure of the citizen, automobility became a powerful resource for women, African Americans, and others seeking entry into the public sphere. And yet, he argues, the individualistic but anonymous act of driving has also monopolized our thinking about freedom and democracy, discouraging the crafting of a more sustainable way of life. As our fantasies of the open road turn into fears of a looming energy crisis, Seiler shows us just how we ended up a republic of drivers—and where we might be headed.
Author : Norman Ashford
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000366537
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Mobility and Transport for Elderly and Handicapped Persons written by Norman Ashford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1982 and contributed to by a range of international authors and experts in the field of transport accessibility, this volume discusses the position of urban and rural transport problems of the elderly and disabled in the UK, USA, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, The Netherlands and Sweden. Based on research, policy analysis and documental field experience the volume also discusses advances made in relevant technology, major changes in public policy and innovative proposals for system development or change.
Author : Marguerite Shaffer
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 13 : 1588343855
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book See America First written by Marguerite Shaffer and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In See America First, Marguerite Shaffer chronicles the birth of modern American tourism between 1880 and 1940, linking tourism to the simultaneous growth of national transportation systems, print media, a national market, and a middle class with money and time to spend on leisure. Focusing on the See America First slogan and idea employed at different times by railroads, guidebook publishers, Western boosters, and Good Roads advocates, she describes both the modern marketing strategies used to promote tourism and the messages of patriotism and loyalty embedded in the tourist experience. She shows how tourists as consumers participated in the search for a national identity that could assuage their anxieties about American society and culture. Generously illustrated with images from advertisements, guidebooks, and travelogues, See America First demonstrates that the promotion of tourist landscapes and the consumption of tourist experiences were central to the development of an American identity.
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Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Proceedings of the Conference with the President of the United States and the Secretary of Labor of the Governors of the States and Mayor of Cities in the East Room of the White House written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Proceedings of the Conference with the President of the United States and the Secretary of Labor of the Governors of the States and Mayors of Cities in the East Room of the White House, Washington, D.C., March 3, 4, and 5, 1919 written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : National Research Council (U.S.). Highway Research Board. Annual Meeting
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 878 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting written by National Research Council (U.S.). Highway Research Board. Annual Meeting and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stan Purdum
Publisher : CSS Publishing
ISBN 13 : 078802129X
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Playing in Traffic written by Stan Purdum and published by CSS Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience the romance and adventure of the open road as one bicyclist travels the full length of U.S. Route 62, from Niagara Falls, New York, to El Paso, Texas. This story is filled with the author's humorous experiences, wry observations and fascinating encounters with people who live along this byway, which slices diagonally across America's heartland. Available 06/2001
Author : James H. Adams
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498508693
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)
Download or read book Urban Reform and Sexual Vice in Progressive-Era Philadelphia written by James H. Adams and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the intersection and interplay between Progressive-Era rhetoric regarding commercialized vice and the realities of prostitution in early-twentieth-century Philadelphia. Arguing that any study of commercial sexual vice in a historical context is difficult given the paucity of evidence, this work instead focuses on reformers’ construction of a cultural view of prostitution, which Adams argues was based more upon their perceptions of the trade than on reality itself. Looking at the urban core of the city, Progressive reformers saw vice, immorality, and decay—but as they frequently had little face-to-face interaction with prostitutes plying their trade, they were forced to construct culturally fueled archetypes to explain what they believed they saw. Ultimately, reformers in Philadelphia were battling against a rhetorical creation of their own design, and any study of anti-vice reform in the early twentieth century tells us more about the relationship between activists and the government than it does about vice itself.
