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

by John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle

The use of cars and trucks over the past century has remade American geography--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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1572338237
• ISBN13: 9781572338234
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"