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Consuming Landscapes: What We See When We Drive and Why It Matters

Consuming Landscapes: What We See When We Drive and Why It Matters

Zeller, Thomas

Hardcover

Technology & EngineeringAutomobilesLandscape Architecture

ISBN10: 1421444828
ISBN13: 9781421444826
Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
Published: Oct 4 2022
Pages: 264
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.87 Width: 5.98 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

What we see through our windshields reflects ideas about our national identity, consumerism, and infrastructure.

For better or worse, windshields have become a major frame for viewing the nonhuman world. The view from the road is one of the main ways in which we experience our environments. These vistas are the result of deliberate historical forces, and humans have shaped them as they simultaneously sought to be transformed by them. In Consuming Landscapes, Thomas Zeller explores how what we see while driving reflects how we view our societies and ourselves, the role that consumerism plays in our infrastructure, and ideas about reshaping the environment in the twentieth century.

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