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American Autopia: An Intellectual History of the Roadside at Midcentury
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American Autopia: An Intellectual History of the Roadside at Midcentury
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American Autopia: An Intellectual History of the Roadside at Midcentury
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While it addresses the development of auto-oriented landscapes and infrastructures,
is not a conventional history, offering instead an exploration of the wide-ranging evolution of car-centric territories and drive-in typologies, looking at how they were scrutinized by diverse cultural observers in the middle of the twentieth century.
Drawing on work published in the popular and professional press, and generously illustrated with evocative images, the book shows how figures as diverse as designer Victor Gruen, geographer Jean Gottmann, theorist Denise Scott Brown, critic J.B. Jackson, and historian Reyner Banham constructed "autopia" as a place and an idea. The result is an intellectual history and interpretive roadmap to the United States of the Automobile.