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Remembering roadside America : preserving the recent past as landscape and place / John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jakle, John A.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Historic sites--Conservation and restoration--United States.
- Historic sites.
- Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration--United States.
- Historic buildings.
- Roadside architecture--Conservation and restoration--United States.
- Roadside architecture.
- Landscape architecture--Conservation and restoration--United States.
- Landscape architecture.
- Material culture--Conservation and restoration--United States.
- Material culture.
- Historic preservation--United States.
- Historic preservation.
- Museum techniques--United States.
- Museum techniques.
- Landscape protection--United States.
- Landscape protection.
- United States--Description and travel.
- United States.
- United States--History, Local.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (310 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The use of cars and trucks over the past century has remade American geography-pushing big cities ever outward toward suburbanization, spurring the growth of some small towns while hastening the decline of others, and spawning a new kind of commercial landscape marked by gas stations, drive-in restaurants, motels, tourist attractions, and countless other retail entities that express our national love affair with the open road. By its very nature, this landscape is ever changing, indeed ephemeral. What is new quickly becomes old and is soon forgotten.
- Contents:
- The Journey Begins
- Observing Roadside America
- Learning from Roadside America
- Preserving Roads and Roadsides
- Historical Museums and Roadside America
- Experiencing the Past as Landscape and Place
- The Road Continues
- Appendix.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613528919
- 9781572339071
- 1572339071
- 9781280125058
- 1280125055
- 9781572338333
- 1572338334
- OCLC:
- 775873033
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