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

摘要

Just as Christof Mauch and Thomas Zeller claim, the contributors to this anthology "teach us ... to read the world beyond the windshield," mindful of the "historical processes that have jointly helped to shape ... roads and landscapes" (p. 13). Automobiles and highways have received substantial attention elsewhere, but as a comparative study of roadscapes this book is a contribution to scholarship on anthropogenic landscapes. It is also an answer to those who contend that the highway is a "non-place" (p. 34) and to those who limit "the world beyond the windshield" to roadside vernacular architecture.