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.
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