[PDF.22bm] Car Country: An Environmental History (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)

Car Country: An Environmental History (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)

[PDF.on22] Car Country: An Environmental History (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)

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 | #451390 in Books |  2014-07-09 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.02 x1.04 x5.98l,.0 | File type: PDF | 464 pages

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||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| An Asphalt Ecology|By Taylor rose|In Car Country, Christopher Wells attempts to answer a seemingly simple question about modern American life: Why is it so difficult to go anywhere without the use of an automobile? Over the course of 300 pages, Wells convincingly argues that our auto-dependence is less about cars themselves and more about roads, spatial arrangements, and land u| |"One of the great strengths of the book is Wells’s meticulous work in revealing how the institutional, economic, and mental arrangements supporting ‘Car Country’ were set in place during the interwar years. . . . Wells’s book is a remar

For most people in the United States, going almost anywhere begins with reaching for the car keys. This is true, Christopher Wells argues, because the United States is Car Country―a nation dominated by landscapes that are difficult, inconvenient, and often unsafe to navigate by those who are not sitting behind the wheel of a car.

The prevalence of car-dependent landscapes seems perfectly natural to us today, but it is, in fact, a relatively new historical develo...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Car Country: An Environmental History (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)   |  Christopher W. Wells. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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