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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Christof Mauch; Thomas Zeller |
| ISBN: | 9780821417676 0821417673 9783515091701 351509170X 9780821417683 0821417681 |
| OCLC Number: | 156817250 |
| Description: | xv, 283 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Driving cultures and the meaning of roads : some comparative examples / Rudy J. Koshar -- The rise and decline of the American parkway / Timothy Davis -- The scenic is political : creating natural and cultural landscapes along America's Blue Ridge Parkway / Anne Mitchell Whisnant -- "A feeling almost beyond description" : scenic roads in South Dakota's Custer state park, 1919-32 / Suzanne Julin -- "Neon, junk, and ruined landscape" : competing visions of America's roadsides and the highway beautification act of 1965 / Carl A. Zimring -- A rough modernization : landscapes and highways in twentieth-century Italy / Massimo Moraglio -- Building and rebuilding the landscape of the Autobahn, 1930-70 / Thomas Zeller -- Socialist highways? Appropriating the Autobahn in the German Democatic Republic / Axel Dossmann -- "'Beautified' is a vile phrase" : the politics and aesthetics of landscaping roads in pre- and postwar Britain / Peter Merriman -- Physical and social constructions of the Capital Beltway / Jeremy L. Korr. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Christof Mauch and Thomas Zeller ; foreword by David E. Nye. |
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