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The world beyond the windshield : roads and landscapes in the United States and Europe
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The world beyond the windshield : roads and landscapes in the United States and Europe

Author: Christof Mauch; Thomas Zeller
Publisher: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press ; Stuttgart : Franz Steiner Verlag, ©2008.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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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