{"product_id":"asphalt-nation-how-the-automobile-took-over-america-and-how-we-can-take-it-back-paperback","title":"Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take It Back - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJane Holtz Kay\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAsphalt Nation\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful examination of how the automobile has ravaged America's cities and landscape over the past 100 years together with a compelling strategy for reversing our automobile dependency. Jane Holtz Kay provides a history of the rapid spread of the automobile and documents the huge subsidies commanded by the highway lobby, to the detriment of once-efficient forms of mass transportation. Demonstrating that there are economic, political, architectural, and personal solutions to the problem, she shows that radical change is entirely possible. This book is essential reading for everyone interested in the history of our relationship with the car, and in the prospect of returning to a world of human mobility.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJane Holtz Kay's book has given us a profound way of seeing the automobile's ruinous impact on American life. \u003ci\u003eAsphalt Nation\u003c\/i\u003e is terrific.--Jane Jacobs, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Death and Life of Great American Cities\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJane Holtz Kay\u003c\/b\u003e is the architecture and planning critic for \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e and the author of \u003ci\u003eLost Boston\u003c\/i\u003e (1980) and \u003ci\u003ePreserving New England\u003c\/i\u003e (1986).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 440\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.19 x 9.04 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 1998\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52612377444659,"sku":"9780520216204","price":62.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/MCt4WmI5cUVJV0lrTHAzbFJNY2tUZz09.webp?v=1761850576","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/asphalt-nation-how-the-automobile-took-over-america-and-how-we-can-take-it-back-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}