The World Beyond the Windshield: Roads and Landscapes in the United States and Europe

摘要

Historical studies of the perceptual experience of the automotive landscape-parkways, highways, the strip, billboards, junk yards and the topography of Googie and big-box retailing-have been lacking from the rich and varied bibliography of mobility culture. Christof Mauch and Thomas Zeller's anthology, The World Beyond the Windshield: Roads and Landscapes in the United States and Europe, marks the beginning of a new and much needed discourse on this subject. More than fulfillment of this lack, it is but an overture, since the real topic of this collection of essays is the world-the thoroughfare and landscape-outside of the car window rather than the act of seeing through the window.