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American autopia : an intellectual history of the American roadside at midcentury / Gabrielle Esperdy.
Lippincott Library HE5623 .E87 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Esperdy, Gabrielle M., author.
- Series:
- Midcentury (Charlottesville, Va.)
- Midcentury : architecture, landscape, urbanism, and design
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Automobiles--Environmental aspects--United States--History--20th century.
- Automobiles.
- Automobiles--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.
- Cultural landscapes--United States.
- Cultural landscapes.
- Automobiles--Environmental aspects.
- Automobiles--Social aspects.
- History.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 358 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville ; London : University of Virginia Press, [2019]
- Contents:
- The car and what came of it
- Roadside metropolis
- Autopia and its discontents
- Learning from autopia
- The twilight of autopia.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813942957
- 0813942950
- OCLC:
- 1091587382
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