Asphalt nation : how the automobile took over America, and how we can take it back / Jane Holtz Kay.

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Kay, Jane Holtz.

Title & Author:

Asphalt nation : how the automobile took over America, and how we can take it back / Jane Holtz Kay.

Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [1998]

Description:

xii, 418 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Originally published: New York : Crown, ©1997.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-403) and index.
pt. 1. Car glut: a nation in lifelock -- pt. 2. Car tracks: the machine that made the land -- pt. 3. Car free: from dead end to exit.

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ISBN:

0520216202 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780520216204 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Automobiles Social aspects United States.
City and town life United States.
Sociology, Urban United States.
Automobiles Aspect social États-Unis.
Vie urbaine États-Unis.
Sociologie urbaine États-Unis.
Automobiles Social aspects.
City and town life.
Sociology, Urban.
Stadtverkehr
Gemeinschaft
Soziologie
Urbanität
Kraftfahrzeug
Autogebruik.
Sociale aspecten.
Automobiles United States History.
United States.
USA.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 214741
Call No.: HE5623 .K3 1998
Status: Available

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