Signs in America's Auto Age: Signatures of Landscape and Place (American Land & Life) - Softcover

Jakle & Sculle, John A. & Keith A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0877458901 ISBN 13: 9780877458906

Publisher: University Of Iowa Press, 2004

Synopsis

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 how to use signs the authors consider the vast array of signs that have evolved since the beginning of the 20th century.

About this title

From the Publisher

"Here speak the mute heralds of roadside America, the visual punctuation of modern national landscape."—John R. Stilgoe, Harvard University

About the Author

John Jakle is a professor of both geography and landscape architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Keith Sculle is the Head of Research and Education for the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency and an adjunct professor of history at the University of Illinois at Springfield. Together they have co-authored four books on the history of the American roadside, The Gas Station in America, The Motel in America (with Jefferson S. Rogers), Fast Food: Roadside Restaurants in the Automobile Age, and the forthcoming Lots of Parking: Land Use in a Car Culture.

Edition details

• Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0877458901
• ISBN 13: 9780877458906
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256