Down the Asphalt Path: The Automobile and the American City (Columbia History of Urban Life)

By Clay McShane

Book Overview

McShane examines the uniquely American relation between auto-mobility and urbanization. Deftly combining urban and technological history, McShane focuses on how new transportation systems -- most important, the private automobile -- and new concepts of the city redefined each other in modern America.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231083904
• ISBN13: 9780231083904
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.3" x 6.3"