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Autore |
Jakle John A |
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Titolo |
Remembering roadside America [[electronic resource] ] : preserving the recent past as landscape and place / / John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle |
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Knoxville, : University of Tennessee Press, c2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-12505-5 |
9786613528919 |
1-57233-833-4 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (310 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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, |
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