03033nam 2200649 a 450 991077755410332120230207224806.01-58729-482-6(CKB)1000000000459798(EBL)843162(OCoLC)66385186(SSID)ssj0000245891(PQKBManifestationID)11211420(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000245891(PQKBWorkID)10177172(PQKB)10508246(MiAaPQ)EBC843162(MdBmJHUP)muse9309(Au-PeEL)EBL843162(CaPaEBR)ebr10354439(EXLCZ)99100000000045979820031015d2004 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSigns in America's auto age[electronic resource] signatures of landscape and place /by John A. Jakle and Keith A. SculleIowa City University of Iowa Press20041 online resource (257 p.)American land and life seriesDescription based upon print version of record.0-87745-890-1 0-87745-889-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Foreword; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One: Commercial Signs; 1 : Signs Downtown; 2 : Signs on Main Street; 3 : Roadside Signs; Part Two: Signing Public Places; 4 : Traffic Signs; 5 : Signs and Community; Part Three Signing Personal Space; 6 : Territorial Markers andSigns of Personal Identity; Part Four: Sign Aesthetics; 7 : Signs and Landscape Visualization; 8 : Sign Regulation; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; IndexSigns orient, inform, persuade, and regulate. They help give meaning to our natural and human-built environment, to landscape and place. In Signs in America's Auto Age, cultural geographer John Jakle and historian Keith Sculle explore the ways in which we take meaning from outdoor signs and assign meaning to our surroundings-the ways we "read" landscape. With an emphasis on how the use of signs changed as the nation's geography reorganized around the coming of the automobile, Jakle and Sculle consider the vast array of signs that have evolved since the beginning of the twentieth century.American land and life series.Signs and signboardsUnited StatesAdvertising, OutdoorUnited StatesSocial interactionUnited StatesLandscapesUnited StatesCities and townsUnited StatesSigns and signboardsAdvertising, OutdoorSocial interactionLandscapesCities and towns659.13/42/0973Jakle John A148781MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910777554103321Signs in America's auto age3824298UNINA