The world beyond the windshield : roads and landscapes in the United States and Europe / edited by Christof Mauch and Thomas Zeller ; foreword by David E. Nye.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-270) and index.
Contents:
Driving cultures and the meaning of roads : some comparative examples / Rudy J. Koshar -- The rise and decline of the American parkway / Timothy Davis -- The scenic is political : creating natural and cultural landscapes along America's Blue Ridge Parkway / Anne Mitchell Whisnant -- "A feeling almost beyond description" : scenic roads in South Dakota's Custer state park, 1919-32 / Suzanne Julin -- "Neon, junk, and ruined landscape" : competing visions of America's roadsides and the highway beautification act of 1965 / Carl A. Zimring -- A rough modernization : landscapes and highways in twentieth-century Italy / Massimo Moraglio -- Building and rebuilding the landscape of the Autobahn, 1930-70 / Thomas Zeller -- Socialist highways? Appropriating the Autobahn in the German Democatic Republic / Axel Dossmann -- "'Beautified' is a vile phrase" : the politics and aesthetics of landscaping roads in pre- and postwar Britain / Peter Merriman -- Physical and social constructions of the Capital Beltway / Jeremy L. Korr.
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