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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. With an emphasis on …
The Garage
The garage—whether used for automobile storage, parking, repair, or sales—has been an American commonplace for so long that it is surprising how little attention it has drawn from …
Lots of Parking
This lively and exhaustive study traces the history of parking from the curbside to the rise of public and commercial parking lots and garages and the concomitant demolition of the …
Signs in America's Auto Age
Signs 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 …
Picturing Illinois
At the outset of the twentieth century the debut of the American picture postcard incited widespread enthusiasm for collecting and sending postcard art that lasted decades. In …
Remembering Roadside America
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 …
Remembering Roadside America
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 …
America's Main Street Hotels
In small cities and towns across the United States, Main Street hotels were iconic institutions. They were usually grand, elegant buildings where families celebrated special …
Visual Elements of Landscape
An examination of how visual and aesthetic dimensions amplify the functional interpretation of cultural landscape.
Ohio
The first half of the 20th century was a period of great change along the historic Ohio River corridor. It was then that the Ohio became the most heavily engineered river in the …
Supplanting America’s Railroads
With their speed and geographical reach, America’s railroads reigned supreme through much of the nineteenth century, knitting together the sprawling country as no other mode of …