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Signs in America's auto age : signatures of landscape and place
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ISBN: 0877458898 0877458901 1587294826 9781587294822 9780877458890 9780877458906 Year: 2004 Publisher: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press,

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Signs orient, inform, persuade, and regulate. They help give meaning to our natural and human-built environment, to landscape and place. In Signs in America's Auto Age, cultural geographer John Jakle and historian Keith Sculle explore the ways in which we take meaning from outdoor signs and assign meaning to our surroundings-the ways we "read" landscape. With an emphasis on how the use of signs changed as the nation's geography reorganized around the coming of the automobile, Jakle and Sculle consider the vast array of signs that have evolved since the beginning of the twentieth century.


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The visual elements of landscape
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ISBN: 9780870235672 Year: 1987 Publisher: Amherst, Mass. The University of Massachusetts Press

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City lights : illuminating the American night
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ISBN: 080186593X Year: 2001 Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,

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Remembering roadside America : preserving the recent past as landscape and place
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ISBN: 1280125055 9786613528919 1572338334 9781572338333 9781280125058 9781572338234 1572338237 Year: 2011 Publisher: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press,

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The use of cars and trucks over the past century has remade American geography-pushing big cities ever outward toward suburbanization, spurring the growth of some small towns while hastening the decline of others, and spawning a new kind of commercial landscape marked by gas stations, drive-in restaurants, motels, tourist attractions, and countless other retail entities that express our national love affair with the open road. By its very nature, this landscape is ever changing, indeed ephemeral. What is new quickly becomes old and is soon forgotten.


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Picturing Illinois : Twentieth-Century Postcard Art from Chicago to Cairo
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ISBN: 1283712660 0252093941 9780252036828 9780252093944 9781283712668 0252080904 9780252080906 0252036824 Year: 2012 Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press,

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Fast food : roadside restaurants in the automobile age
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ISBN: 0801861098 Year: 1999 Publisher: Baltimore, Md London Johns Hopkins University Press

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Eating on the run has a long history in America, but it was the automobile that created a whole new category of dining: "fast food." In the final volume of their "Gas, Food, Lodging" trilogy, John Jakle and Keith Sculle contemplate the origins, architecture, and commercial growth of fast food restaurants from White Castle to McDonald's.Illustrated with 217 maps, postcards, photographs, and drawings, Fast Food makes clear that the story of these unpretentious restaurants is the story of modern American culture. The first roadside eateries popularized once-unfamiliar foods―hamburgers, hot dogs, pizza, milkshakes, burritos―that are now basic to the American diet. By the 1950s, drive-ins and diners had become icons of rebellion where teenagers sought freedom from adult authority. Like the gas station and the motel, the roadside restaurant is an essential part of the modern American landscape―where intentional sameness of design "welcomes" every interstate driver.


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The garage : automobility and building innovation in America's early auto age
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ISBN: 9781572339583 Year: 2013 Publisher: Knoxville, Tenn. The University of Tennessee Press

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The gas station in America
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ISBN: 0801847230 Year: 1994 Publisher: Baltimore ; London Johns Hopkins University Press

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