Book ID: CBB845299669

Modern mobility aloft : Elevated highways, architecture, and urban change in pre-interstate America (2020)

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Amy D. Finstein (Author)


Temple University Press


Publication Date: 2020
Edition Details: Book Series: Urban life, landscape, and policy
Physical Details: 289
Language: English

Modern Mobility Aloft explores how American cities used the insertion of elevated highways as major architectural statements about local growth and modernization in the pre-Interstate highway era. (Publisher)

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Review Geoff D. Zylstra (July 2022) Review of "Modern mobility aloft : Elevated highways, architecture, and urban change in pre-interstate America". Technology and Culture (pp. 878-879). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Jaffe, Eric
Koeppel, Gerard T.
Martucci, Jessica
Rawson, Michael
Roth, Matthew W.
Slaton, Amy E.
Journals
The Journal of Transport History
The Bridge: Journal of the National Academy of Engineering
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Engineering Studies
IA. The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology
Publishers
Cornell University Press
Harvard University Press
Indiana University Press
Island Press
Johns Hopkins University Press
Scribner
Concepts
Urban planning
Roads and highways
Architecture
Technology and society
Land transportation
Urban history
People
Fuller, Richard Buckminster
Geddes, Norman Bel (1893-1958)
Ferriss, Hugh (1889-1962)
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
18th century
20th century, late
21st century
Places
United States
Chicago (Illinois, U.S.)
New York City (New York, U.S.)
Boston (Massachusetts, U.S.)
Philadelphia, PA
Berlin (Germany)
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