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American Autopia: An Intellectual History of the American Roadside at Midcentury

American Autopia: An Intellectual History of the American Roadside at Midcentury

Esperdy, Gabrielle

Hardcover

Series: Midcentury

General ArchitectureGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0813942950
ISBN13: 9780813942957
Publisher: Univ Of Virginia Pr
Published: Oct 28 2019
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.70
Height: 1.07 Width: 7.37 Depth: 8.70
Language: English

Early to mid-twentieth-century America was the heyday of a car culture that has been called an automobile utopia. In American Autopia, Gabrielle Esperdy examines how the automobile influenced architectural and urban discourse in the United States from the earliest days of the auto industry to the aftermath of the 1970s oil crisis. Paying particular attention to developments after World War II, Esperdy creates a narrative that extends from U.S. Routes 1 and 66 to the Las Vegas Strip to California freeways, with stops at gas stations, diners, main drags, shopping centers, and parking lots along the way.

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