American Autopia: An Intellectual History of the American Roadside at Midcentury
(Part of the Midcentury: Architecture, Landscape, Urbanism, and Design Series)
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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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0813942950
ISBN13:9780813942957
Release Date:October 2019
Publisher:University of Virginia Press
Length:384 Pages
Weight:1.70 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 7.4" x 8.7"
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