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Asphalt nation : how the automobile took over America, and how we can take it back
Record details
- ISBN: 0520216202 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Physical Description:
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xii, 418 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, 1998
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Originally published: New York : Crown, c1997. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 393-403) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Late Motor Age: A Defining Decade -- Pt. I. Car Glut: A Nation in Lifelock -- 1. Bumper to Bumper -- 2. Geography of Inequity -- 3. Landscape of the Exit Ramp -- 4. Road to Environmental Ruin -- 5. Harm to Health and Breath -- 6. Cost of the Car Culture -- Pt. II. Car Tracks: The Machine That Made the Land -- 7. Model T, Model City -- 8. From Front Porch to Front Seat -- 9. Driving Through the Depression -- 10. Asphalt Exodus -- 11. Braking the Juggernaut -- 12. Three-Car Culture -- Pt. III. Car Free: From Dead End to Exit -- 13. None for the Road -- 14. Zoning for Life -- 15. Putting Transit on Track -- 16. Centering of America -- 17. De-Paving of America -- 18. Righting the Price. |
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| Subject: | Automobiles -- Social aspects -- United States City and town life -- United States Sociology, Urban -- United States |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Vancouver Island University Library.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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| VIU Library - Nanaimo Campus | HE 5623 K36 1998 (Text) | M011160357 | STACKS | Volume hold | Available | - |
