Signs in America's auto age: signatures of landscape and place
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Main Author: Jakle, John A. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Iowa City University of Iowa Press ©2004
Series:American land and life series
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Item Description:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references and index
Commercial signs -- Signing public places -- Signing personal space -- Sign aesthetics
Signs orient, inform, persuade, and regulate. They help give meaning to our natural and human-built environment, to landscape and place. In Signs in America's Auto Age, 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-the ways we "read" landscape. With an emphasis on how the use of signs changed as the nation's geography reorganized around the coming of the automobile, Jakle and Sculle consider the vast array of signs that have evolved since the beginning of the twentieth century
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xxxiii, 219 pages)
ISBN:1587294826
9781587294822

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