Car Country: An Environmental History

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Weyerhaeuser environmental Books William Cronon, Editor Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books explore human relationships with natural environments in all their variety and complexity. They seek to cast new light on the ways that natural systems affect human communities, the ways that people affect the environments of which they are a part, and the ways that different cultural conceptions of nature profoundly shape our sense of the world around us. A complete list of the books in the series appears at the end of this book. University of Washington Press Seattle and London ChristoPher W. Wells Car Country an environmental history Foreword by William Cronon Car Country: An Environmental History is published with the assistance of a grant from the Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books Endowment, established by the Weyerhaeuser Company Foundation, members of the Weyerhaeuser family, and Janet and Jack Creighton.© 2012 by the University of Washington Press Printed and bound in the United States of America Design by Thomas Eykemans Composed in Sorts Mill Goudy by Barry Schwartz Display type set in Intro by Svetoslav Simov 17 16 15 14 13 12 5 4 3 2 1 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. University of Washington Press Po Box 50096, Seattle, Wa 98145, Usa www.washington.edu/uwpress library of Congress Cataloging-in-PUbliCation Data Wells, Christopher W. Car country : an environmental history / Christopher W. Wells. p. cm. — (Weyerhaeuser environmental books) Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-0-295-99215-0 (hbk. : alk. paper) 1. Automobiles—Environmental aspects—United States—History. 2. Automobiles—Social aspects—United States—History. 3. Transportation, Automotive—United States—History. 4. Urban transportation—United States—History. 5. City planning—United States—History. 6. Land use—United States—History. i. Title. he5623.W45 2012 388.3’420973—dc23 2012026654 The paper used in this publication is acid-free and meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences— Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ansi Z39.48–1984.∞ For Marianne ...