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Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take It Back Paperback - 1998
by Jane Holtz Kay
A powerful examination of how the automobile has ravaged America's cities and landscape over the past 100 years, "Asphalt Nation" also offers a compelling strategy for reversing this country's automobile dependency. 23 illustrations.
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"Jane Holtz Kay's book has given us a profound way of seeing the automobile's ruinous impact on American life. Asphalt Nation is terrific."--Jane Jacobs, author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities
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- Title Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take It Back
- Author Jane Holtz Kay
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 440
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press, Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 1998-10-01
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780520216204 / 0520216202
- Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
- Dimensions 9.04 x 6.1 x 1.19 in (22.96 x 15.49 x 3.02 cm)
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- Demographic Orientation: Urban
- Library of Congress subjects City and town life - United States, Sociology, Urban - United States
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98015101
- Dewey Decimal Code 303.483
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- New York Times, 01/03/1999, Page 24
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