Author: United States. Bureau of Public RoadsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Highway planning
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Public Control of Highway Access and Roadside Development
Author: United States. Bureau of Public RoadsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Highway planning
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Public Control of Highway Access and Roadside Development
Author: United States. Federal Works AgencyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Short Course on Roadside Development
Author: Bibliography on Roadside Control
Author: Bibliography
Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Highway Research BoardPublisher:
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Category : Highway research
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Bibliography on Automobile Parking in the United States
Author: United States. Federal Works Agency. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Automobile parking
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Bibliography on Land Acquisition for Public Roads
Author: Frances MahoneyPublisher:
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Category : Eminent domain
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
A Proposed Program for Scenic Roads & Parkways
Author: United States. Department of CommercePublisher:
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Category : Parkways
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
"In April 1962, Executive Order 11017 and subsequent amendments, established the Recreation Advisory Council comprised of the Secretaries of the Interior, Agriculture, Defense, Commerce, Health, Education and Welfare. the Administrator of the Housing and Home Finance Agency, and the Chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority. The council was commissioned, among other things, to provide broad policy advice on all important matters affecting outdoor recreation resources and to facilitate coordinated efforts among the various Federal agencies. In 1964, the Council issued a policy statement (Circular No. 4) recommending that a national program of scenic roads and parkways be developed. In this policy circular, the Council identified certain elements to be considered in a comprehensive study of such a program and commissioned the Department of Commerce to conduct it."--
The Role of the Federal Government in Highway Development
Author: George Donald KennedyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic conversion
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Motoring
Author: John A. JaklePublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820330280
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Motoring unmasks the forces that shape the American driving experience--commercial, aesthetic, cultural, mechanical--as it takes a timely look back at our historically unconditional love of motor travel. Focusing on recreational travel between 1900 and 1960, John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle cover dozens of topics related to drivers, cars, and highways and explain how they all converge to uphold that illusory notion of release and rejuvenation we call the "open road." Jakle and Sculle have collaborated on five previous books on the history, culture, and landscape of the American road. Here, with an emphasis on the driver's perspective, they discuss garages and gas stations, roadside tourist attractions, freeways and toll roads, truck stops, bus travel, the rise of the convenience store, and much more. All the while, the authors make us think about aspects of driving that are often taken for granted: how, for instance, the many lodging and food options along our highways reinforce the connection between driving and "freedom" and how, by enabling greater speeds, highway engineers helped to stoke motorists' "blessed fantasy of flight." Although driving originally celebrated freedom and touted a common experience, it has increasingly become a highly regulated, isolated activity. The motive behind America's first embrace of the automobile--individual prerogative--still substantially obscures this reality. "Americans did not have the automobile imposed on them," say the authors. Jakle and Sculle ask why some of the early prophetic warnings about our car culture went unheeded and why the arguments of its promoters resonated so persuasively. Today, the automobile is implicated in any number of environmental, even social, problems. As the wisdom of our dependence on automobile travel has come into serious question, reassessment of how we first became that way is more important than ever.