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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778931403321

Autore

Jakle John A

Titolo

Remembering roadside America [[electronic resource] ] : preserving the recent past as landscape and place / / John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Knoxville, : University of Tennessee Press, c2011

ISBN

1-280-12505-5

9786613528919

1-57233-833-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (310 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SculleKeith A

Disciplina

363.6/90973

Soggetti

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

United States Description and travel

United States History, Local

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Journey Begins -- Observing Roadside America -- Learning from Roadside America -- Preserving Roads and Roadsides -- Historical Museums and Roadside America -- Experiencing the Past as Landscape and Place -- The Road Continues -- Appendix.

Sommario/riassunto

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.