The Automobile Age - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Automobile Age write by James J. Flink. This book was released on 1990-07-19. The Automobile Age available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this sweeping cultural history, James Flink provides a fascinating account of the creation of the world's first automobile culture. He offers both a critical survey of the development of automotive technology and the automotive industry and an analysis of the social effects of "automobility" on workers and consumers.
Signs in America's Auto Age
Signs in America's Auto Age - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Signs in America's Auto Age write by John A. Jakle. This book was released on 2006-08-22. Signs in America's Auto Age available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Fast Food
Fast Food - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fast Food write by John A. Jakle. This book was released on 2002. Fast Food available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The authors contemplate the origins, architecture and commercial growth of wayside eateries in the US over the past 100 years. Fast Food examines the impact of the automobile on the restaurant business and offers an account of roadside dining.
Transport for Suburbia
Transport for Suburbia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Transport for Suburbia write by Paul Mees. This book was released on 2009-12. Transport for Suburbia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The need for effective public transport is greater than ever in the 21st century. With countries like China and India moving towards mass-automobility, we face the prospects of an environmental and urban health disaster unless alternatives are found. It is time to move beyond the automobile age. But while public transport has worked well in the dense cores of some big cities, the problem is that most residents of developed countries now live in dispersed suburbs and smaller cities and towns. These places usually have little or no public transport, and most transport commentators have given up on the task of changing this: it all seems too hard. This book argues that the secret of 'European-style' public transport lies in a generalizable model of network planning that has worked in places as diverse as rural Switzerland, the Brazilian city of Curitiba and the Canadian cities of Toronto and Vancouver. It shows how this model can be adapted to suburban, exurban and even rural areas to provide a genuine alternative to the car, and outlines the governance, funding and service planning policies that underpin the success of the world's best public transport systems."--Back cover.
Car Crazy
Car Crazy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Car Crazy write by G. Wayne Miller. This book was released on 2015-11-03. Car Crazy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Before the "Big Three," even before the Model T, the race for dominance in the American car market was fierce, fast, and sometimes farcical. Car Crazy takes readers back to the passionate and reckless years of the early automobile era, from 1893, when the first US-built auto was introduced, through 1908, when General Motors was founded and Ford's Model T went on the market. The motorcar was new, paved roads few, and devotees of this exciting and unregulated technology battled with citizens who considered the car a dangerous scourge, wrought by the wealthy, that was shattering a more peaceful way of life. Among the pioneering competitors were Ransom E. Olds, founder of Olds Motor Works and creator of a new company called REO; Olds' cutthroat new CEO Frederic L. Smith; William C. "Billy" Durant of Buick Motor Company (and soon General Motors); and inventor Henry Ford. They shared a passion for innovation, both mechanical and entrepreneurial, but their maniacal pursuit of market share would also involve legal manipulation, vicious smear campaigns, and zany publicity stunts -- including a wild transcontinental car race that transfixed the public. Their war on wheels ultimately culminated in a courtroom battle that would shape the American car industry forever. Based on extensive original research, Car Crazy is a page-turning story of popular culture, business, and sport at the dawn of the twentieth century, filled with compelling, larger-than-life characters, each an American original.
