American Autopia: An Intellectual History of the American Roadside at Midcentury

by Gabrielle Esperdy

Early to mid-twentieth-century America was the heyday of a car culture that has been called an "automobile utopia." In American Autopia, Gabrielle Esperdy examines how the automobile influenced architectural and urban discourse in the United States from the earliest days of the auto industry to the aftermath of the 1970s oil crisis. Paying particular attention to developments after World War II, Esperdy creates a narrative that extends from U.S...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813942950
• ISBN13: 9780813942957
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.4" x 8.7"