[PDF.38vr] Car Country: An Environmental History (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)

Car Country: An Environmental History (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)

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 | #633716 in Books |  2014-07-09 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.02 x1.04 x5.98l,.0 | File type: PDF | 464 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Another Roadside Attraction|By Reading|In 2012, there were ~ 8.6 million lane-miles of roads in the United States. Roads, parking facilities, driveways and sidewalks now imperviously cover > 43,000 sq mi, an area greater than Ohio. To learn more about how this happened, who some of the key players were, and why it may be a less stable result than you might think, you should pur| |"One of the great strengths of the book is Wells’s meticulous work in revealing how the institutional, economic, and mental arrangements supporting ‘Car Country’ were set in place during the interwar years. . . . Wells’s book is a remar

For most people in the United States, going almost anywhere begins with reaching for the car keys. This is true, Christopher Wells argues, because the United States is Car Country―a nation dominated by landscapes that are difficult, inconvenient, and often unsafe to navigate by those who are not sitting behind the wheel of a car.

The prevalence of car-dependent landscapes seems perfectly natural to us today, but it is, in fact, a relatively new historical develo...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Car Country: An Environmental History (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)   |  Christopher W. Wells. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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