Main entry:

Geddes, Norman Bel, 1893-1958.

Title & Author:

Magic motorways / Norman Bel Geddes.

Publication:

[New York] : Random House, [1940]
©1940

Description:

297 pages : illustrations (including maps) diagrams ; 27 cm

Notes:
"First printing."
Highways and horizons -- Safety, comfort, speed and economy -- Eliminate the human factor in driving -- Separated lanes of traffic -- Every highway intersection is obsolete -- Full speed through bottlenecks -- Daylight standards for night driving -- From the Atlantic to the Pacific in one day -- Eliminate graft and double highway construction -- Motorway service to towns and villages -- Motorway tributaries to cities -- Accelerating city traffiic one hundred per cent -- The need for increased distribution -- Thinking for our grandchildren -- Effects of a national motorway system.
Dust jacket (c. 1).

Exhibitions:

Exhibited: "Asphalte", Triennale di Milano, Palazzo dell'arte, Mar. 3-July 31, 2003.

Summary:

"Signed presentation to Vincent Astor, the son of John Jacob Astor IV, dated 20 March 1940. Profusely illustrated, approximately 187 photographs, maps and plans. An early, influential road classic the truth of which remains fixed fifty years later. Bel Geddes in his opening chapter says, "The real trouble with American highways in the simple fact that they are not designed for teh traffic they bear." --description from Royoung Bookseller Inc.

Subject:

Roads United States.
Traffic regulations United States.
Automobiles.
Routes États-Unis.
Traffic regulations
Roads
Automobiles 1940.
Express highways 1940.
United States.

Form/genre:

Books.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 122793
Call No.: W1569
Copy: c. 2
Status: Available

Location: Library main 122792
Call No.: 1309
Copy: c. 1
Status: Available