Asphalt Nation; How the Automobile Took Over America, and How We Can Take It Back
by Kay, Jane Holtz
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0517587025
- ISBN 13
- 9780517587027
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Crown Publishers [0-517-58702-5] 1997. (Hardcover) 418pp. Very good in very good plus dust jacket. Photographs, notes, bibliography, index. Lightly shelfworn and the dust jacket has shallow chipping to the edges and corners. "The automobile was once seen as a boon to American life, eradicating the pollution caused by horses and granting citizens new levels of personal freedom and mobility. But it was not long before the servant became the master - public spaces were designed to accomodate the automobile at the expense of the pedestrian, mass transportation was neglected, and the poor, unable to afford cars, saw their access to jobs and amenities worsen". Locale: United States. (Automobiles, Automobiles, Pollution, Public Transportation, Social Conditions, Transportation, Urban Life).
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- Bookseller
- Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 154299
- Title
- Asphalt Nation; How the Automobile Took Over America, and How We Can Take It Back
- Author
- Kay, Jane Holtz
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0517587025
- ISBN 13
- 9780517587027
- Publisher
- Crown Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 1997-04
- Keywords
- Automobiles, Automobiles, Pollution, Public Transportation, Social Conditions, Transportation, Urban Life
- Bookseller catalogs
- Transportation;
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Winnipeg, Manitoba
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- Jacket
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- Edges
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- Poor
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...