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Asphalt Nation - How The Automobile Took Over America & How we Can Take it Back

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-0-520-21620-4
Verlag: University of California Press
Erscheinungstermin: 01.10.1998
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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 car, and in the prospect of returning to a world of human mobility.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9780520216204
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-0-520-21620-4
  • Verlag: University of California Press
  • Erscheinungstermin: 01.10.1998
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage 1998
  • Produktform: Kartoniert, Trade Paperback
  • Gewicht: 590 g
  • Seiten: 440
  • Format (B x H x T): 155 x 230 x 30 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
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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