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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take It Back

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

Kay, Jane Holtz

Paperback

Environmental StudiesGeneral SociologyGeneral United States History

ISBN10: 0520216202
ISBN13: 9780520216204
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Oct 1 1998
Pages: 440
Weight: 1.30
Height: 1.19 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.04
Language: English
Asphalt Nation is a powerful examination of how the automobile has ravaged America's cities and landscape over the past 100 years together with a compelling strategy for reversing our automobile dependency. Jane Holtz Kay provides a history of the rapid spread of the automobile and documents the huge subsidies commanded by the highway lobby, to the detriment of once-efficient forms of mass transportation. Demonstrating that there are economic, political, architectural, and personal solutions to the problem, she shows that radical change is entirely possible. This book 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.

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