Driving Germany: The Landscape of the German Autobahn,1930-1970

摘要

Roads are complex and multifaceted artifacts. They are not only links in transport systems, but also symbols of modernity and expressions of the aspirations and ideologies of the interests that clashed over their creation. Once in place, they tend to remain for extended time periods, embodying the ideology of their creators at the time of construction. Yet their meaning is by no means settled once and for all, but remains open to reinterpreta-tion by each subsequent generation.