Asphalt Nation
Title | Asphalt Nation PDF eBook |
Author | Jane Holtz Kay |
Publisher | Crown |
Pages | 538 |
Release | 2012-06-20 |
Genre | Transportation |
ISBN | 0307819973 |
Asphalt Nation is a major work of urban studies that examines how the automobile has ravaged America’s cities and landscape, and how we can fight back. The automobile was once seen as a boon to American life, eradicating the pollution caused by horses and granting citizens new levels of personal freedom and mobility. But it was not long before the servant became the master—public spaces were designed to accommodate the automobile at the expense of the pedestrian, mass transportation was neglected, and the poor, unable to afford cars, saw their access to jobs and amenities worsen. Now even drivers themselves suffer, as cars choke the highways and pollution and congestion have replaced the fresh air of the open road. Today our world revolves around the car—as a nation, we spend eight billion hours a year stuck in traffic. In Asphalt Nation, Jane Holtz Kay effectively calls for a revolution to reverse our automobile-dependency. Citing successful efforts in places from Portland, Maine, to Portland, Oregon, Kay shows us that radical change is not impossible by any means. She demonstrates that there are economic, political, architectural, and personal solutions that can steer us out of the mess. Asphalt Nation 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.
Report
Title | Report PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs |
Publisher | |
Pages | 976 |
Release | 1902 |
Genre | Indians of North America |
ISBN |
Nation's Business
Title | Nation's Business PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 908 |
Release | 1920 |
Genre | United States |
ISBN |
Down the Asphalt Path
Title | Down the Asphalt Path PDF eBook |
Author | Clay McShane |
Publisher | |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780231083911 |
McShane examines the uniquely American relation between auto-mobility and urbanization. Deftly combining urban and technological history, McShane focuses on how new transportation systems -- most important, the private automobile -- and new concepts of the city redefined each other in modern America.
Nation's Cities
Title | Nation's Cities PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 428 |
Release | 1968 |
Genre | Cities and towns |
ISBN |
Bulletin
Title | Bulletin PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 960 |
Release | 1915 |
Genre | Mines and mineral resources |
ISBN |
Place Matters
Title | Place Matters PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Dreier |
Publisher | |
Pages | 452 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN |
Analyzes the problematic trends facing America's cities and older suburbs and challenges us to put America's urban crisis back on the national agenda.