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Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take It Back

Name: Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take It Back
Brand: University of California Press
SKU: 9780520216204
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Contributors:

Jane Holtz Kay

Publisher:

University of California Press

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

History, Science, Social Science

Book Subcategory:

United States, Environmental Science, Sociology

Book Topic:

Urban

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Release Date:

1998-10-01

ISBN 13:

9780520216204

Weight:

1.3 lbs

Size:

9.04 x 6.10 x 1.19 inches

Pages:

440

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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.

About the Author
Jane Holtz Kay is the architecture and planning critic for The Nation and the author of Lost Boston (1980) and Preserving New England (1986).

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