eBook Asphalt Nation download
by Jane Holtz Kay

Author: Jane Holtz Kay
Publisher: University of California Press; First edition (October 1, 1998)
Language: English
Pages: 432
ePub: 1245 kb
Fb2: 1679 kb
Rating: 4.9
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Category: Different
Subcategory: Humanities
Jane Holtz Kay. I have very mixed feelings about this book. The first chapter is awesome. The last section (the last six chapters) is also very good.
Jane Holtz Kay. However, the author seems to ramble on in the middle of the book, concerned more by her ability to impress her audience with a very extensive vocabulary than conveying the compelling and condemning facts against the car. Also, there are several glaring errors in the book. The one that comes most readily to mind is where she misspelled Gresham, OR, but there were others too.
Jane Holtz Kay's book has given us a profound way of seeing the automobile's ruinous impact on American life. Asphalt Nation is terrific. ―Jane Jacobs, author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Although I wholeheartedly agree with Jane Holtz Kay that the car is ruining America (I just junked mine and started taking the train), I wish she had done a better job of writing about the problem
Jane Holtz Kay (born Jane Holtz; July 7, 1938, Boston – died November 4, 2012) was an American urban design and architecture critic.
Jane Holtz Kay (born Jane Holtz; July 7, 1938, Boston – died November 4, 2012) was an American urban design and architecture critic. A columnist for The Nation, The Boston Globe and The New York Times, she authored three books on the conservation of natural and urban environments, most notably Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take It Back.
In Asphalt Nation, Jane Holtz Kay effectively calls for a revolution to reverse our y. Citing successful efforts in places from Portland, Maine, to Portland, Oregon, Kay shows us that radical change is not impossible by any means
In Asphalt Nation, Jane Holtz Kay effectively calls for a revolution to reverse our y. Citing successful efforts in places from Portland, Maine, to Portland, Oregon, Kay shows us that radical change is not impossible by any means. She demonstrates that there are economic, political, architectural, and personal solutions that can steer us out of the mess. Asphalt Nation 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.
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бесплатно, без регистрации и без смс. Asphalt Nationis a major work of urban studies that examines how the automobile has ravaged America's cities and landscape, and how we can fight back. The automobile was once seen as a boon to American life, eradicating the pollution caused by horses and granting citizens new levels of personal freedom and mobility