A Selection of Useful Books about Highways, the Automobile, the Landscape, and City Planning.

American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials. AASHTO 1914--1989: Moving America into the Future. Washington, DC: American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, 1990.

American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials. The States and the Interstates: Research on the Planning, Design and Construction of the Interstate and Defense Highway System. Washington, DC: American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, 1991.

Belasco, Warren James. Americans on the Road: From Autocamp to Motel, 1910--1945. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1981

Berger, K. T. Where the Road and the Sky Collide: America Through the Eyes of Its Drivers. New York: Henry Holt, 1993.

Blake, Peter. God's Own Junkyard: The Planned Deterioration of America's Landscape. New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964.

Brodsley, David. L.A. Freeway: An Appreciative Essay. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981.

Brown, Kurt, ed. Drive, They Said: Poems about Americans and Their Cars. Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions, 1994.

Didion, Joan. Play It as It Lays. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1970.

Finch, Christopher. Highways to Heaven: The Autobiography of America. New York: HarperCollins, 1992.

Foster, Mark S. From Streetcar to Superhighway: American City Planners and Urban Transportation, 1900--1940. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1981.

Garreau, Joel. Edge City: Life on the New Frontier. New York: Doubleday, 1991.

Goddard, Stephen B. Getting There: the Epic Struggle between Road and Rail in the American Century. New York: Basic Books, 1994.

Hokanson, Drake. The Lincoln Highway: Main Street Across America. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1988.

Jackson, Kenneth T. Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.

Keats, John. The Crack in the Picture Window. Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1956.

Keats, John. The Insolent Chariots. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1958.

Kerouac, Jack. On the Road. New York: Signet, 1957.

Leavitt, Helen. Superhighway--Superhoax. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1970.

McShane, Clay, Down the Asphalt Path: The Automobile and the American City. New York, Columbia University Press, 1994.

Marx, Leo. The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1964.

Meikle, Jeffrey L. Twentieth Century Limited. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1979.

Mumford, Lewis. The Highway and the City. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovitch, 1963.

Mumford, Lewis. The City in History. New York, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1961.

Nader, Ralph. Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-in Dangers of the American Automobile. New York: Grossman, 1965.

Patton, Phil. The Open Road: A Celebration of the American Highway. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986.

Pettifer, Julian, and Turner, Nigel. Automania: Man and the Motor Car. Boaton: Little Brown, 1984.

Post, Emily. By Motor to the Golden Gate. New York: D. Appleton, 1916.

Rae, John B. The American Automobile Industry. Boston: Twayne, 1984.

Rae, John B. The Road and the Car in American Life. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1971.

Schneider, Kenneth R. Autokind vs Mankind. New York, Norton: 1971.

Seely, Bruce. Building the American Highway System: Engineers as Policy Makers. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1987.

Steinbeck, John. Travels with Charley in Search of America. New York: Bantam, 1963.

Tunnard, Christopher, and Pushkarev, Boris. Man-Made America: Chaos or Control. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1963.

Vale, Thomas R. and Vale, Geraldine R. U.S. 40 Today. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 1983.

Whyte, William H. City: Rediscovering the Center. New York: Doubleday, 1988.

Whyte, William H. The Last Landscape. New York: Doubleday, 1968.