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Kay, Jane Holtz
Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America, and How We Can Take It Back
Berkeley, CA University of California Press 1998 0520216202 / 9780520216204 First paperback edition Trade Paperback Good
xii, 418 pp., illus., biblio., index; 23 cm. Good+. Tight, clean copy. Previous owner's bookplate/inside front cover, faint remainder mark/top edge. Age toning. Another copy available. "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. / Jane Holtz Kay is the architecture and planning critic for The Nation and the author of Lost Boston (1980) and Preserving New England (1986)." - Publisher.
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Kay, Jane Holtz
Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America, and How We Can Take It Back
Berkeley, CA University of California Press 1998 0520216202 / 9780520216204 First paperback edition Trade Paperback Fine
xii, 418 pp., illus., biblio., index; 23 cm. Tight, clean copy. "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. / Jane Holtz Kay is the architecture and planning critic for The Nation and the author of Lost Boston (1980) and Preserving New England (1986)." - Publisher.
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