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

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Author / Creator:	Jakle, John A.
Imprint:	Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, 2011.
Description:	1 online resource (310 pages)
Language:	English
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. Historic buildings -- Conservation and restoration Historic preservation Historic sites -- Conservation and restoration Landscape architecture -- Conservation and restoration Landscape protection Material culture -- Conservation and restoration Museum techniques Travel United States -- Description and travel. United States -- History, Local. United States Electronic books. Local history.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11125587

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Other authors / contributors:	Sculle, Keith A.
ISBN:	9781572338333 1572338334 1280125055 9781280125058 9781572338234 1572338237
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	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, this landscape is ever changing, indeed ephemeral. What is new quickly becomes old and is soon forgotten. In this absorbing.
Other form:	Print version: 9781572338234
Standard no.:	9786613528919

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