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

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

The motor vehicle embodied the American way of life long before the flag· waving World War II photo shown here. The imag

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The motor vehicle embodied the American way of life long before the flag· waving World War II photo shown here. The imagery, if not the promise, endures, but the late auto age has erased the nation's dream of mobility. (library of Congress)



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How t�e Automobile look Om America. and How We Can lake It Back

I Jana Holtz Kay

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS

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(Be rman), 208 American Association of State Highway Officials, 150, 165 American Automobile Association (AAA), 150, 165

Architecture, 216 architecture of isolation, 272-273 Art Deco style, 185-186 Art Moderne sryle, 208-209

automobile, deferencr to, 62-65, 78

American Discovery Trail, 339

campus architecture, 74-75

American Graffiti (film), 262

defensive architecture, 71 domestic architecthurcliffe, Sidney, 237 >hunltff, Flavel, 148 •idcwalks, 180 iegel, Frtd, 74 riegel, John H., 102 Srgn•fi�anct of the Fronrierin Amerc i an History, The" (Turner), 8 ' ltttl Spring (Carson), 249 i unon, Robert E., 265 krlinc Drive and Blue Ridge Parkway, 202-203 later, Rodney, 119 oan, AlfredJ., 171 >cia! and recreational trips, 20 occ:iety o fAutomobileEngineers, ISO •domon, Daniel, 32, 66-07

decline of, 166, 174, 176-177, 192-193,212-214,241-242,254

238-239 levittowns, 227-228 in 1920s, 179-182 Suburban sprawl, 56-581 76, 262, 271-212

anri-sprawl strategies, 354-356 costs of, 13�133

names foe, 61-02 Subways, IH, 192,193,213, 21S, 256-257,267,277,305 Sucher, Da.id, 326 Suicides, 107 Suisman, Douglas, 312 Summerlin, Nevada, 70 Sun Belt migration, 1 84--185, 228 Superhighways-Superhoax (Leavirr), 251 Surface Transportation Policy Project, 278-279 Sustainabitity, 358 Swanson, Carl, 311 Syracuse, 310 Taliesin West, 56-57 Tarrtr, A. Ray, 97

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Taste cultures, 275 Taxis, 317 T�pot Dome Scandal, 174 T�nagers, 26, 28, 103 Telecommuting, 318 Television, 33 Tennessee Valley Authority (fVA), 199, 204 Terminal buildings, ISS-156, 186-187,211-212, 243, 252 Thiebacb, Veronika, 293, 294

This Side ofParadise (Fitzgerald), 171 Thompson, Vaivoda & Associates, 75 Ties Tl>at Stress (Elkind), 24 Time expenditures on cars, 121-122 Tire dumps, 86-90 Toll roads, 205 Toronto, 333-335, 341 Towle, Herberr !.add, 144, 146, ISO, 164, 167 Traffic calming, 334--337, 343 Traffic congestion, 14--1 5, 349 drivers' response to, 16-17