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Author Jakle, John A.

Title Remembering Roadside America : Preserving the Recent Past as Landscape and Place.

Publication Info. Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, 2011.

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Description 1 online resource (310 pages)
Note Print version record.
Summary The use of cars and trucks over the past century has remade American geography and mdash;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. In this absorbing.
Contents Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. The Journey Begins; 2. Observing Roadside America; 3. Learning from Roadside America; 4. Preserving Roads and Roadsides; 5. Historical Museums and Roadside America; 6. Experiencing the Past as Landscape and Place; 7. The Road Continues; Appendix; Notes; Index.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject Historic sites -- Conservation and restoration -- United States.
Historic buildings -- Conservation and restoration -- United States.
Roadside architecture -- Conservation and restoration -- United States.
Landscape architecture -- Conservation and restoration -- United States.
Material culture -- Conservation and restoration -- United States.
Historic preservation -- United States.
Museum techniques -- United States.
Landscape protection -- United States.
United States -- Description and travel.
United States -- History, Local.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Historic buildings -- Conservation and restoration. (OCoLC)fst00957729
Historic preservation. (OCoLC)fst00957821
Historic sites -- Conservation and restoration. (OCoLC)fst00957852
Landscape architecture -- Conservation and restoration. (OCoLC)fst00991822
Landscape protection. (OCoLC)fst00992049
Material culture -- Conservation and restoration. (OCoLC)fst01011745
Museum techniques. (OCoLC)fst01030114
Travel. (OCoLC)fst01155558
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Local history. (OCoLC)fst01411631
Added Author Sculle, Keith A.
Other Form: Print version: 9781572338234
Standard No. 9786613528919
ISBN 9781572338333 (electronic bk.)
1572338334 (electronic bk.)
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