Signs in America's Auto Age: Signatures of Landscape and Place (American Land and Life Series) - Softcover

Jakle, John A.; Sculle, Keith A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0877458901 ISBN 13: 9780877458906

Publisher: University of Iowa Press, 2004

Synopsis

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. With an emphasis on how to use signs the authors consider the vast array of signs that have evolved since the beginning of the 20th century.

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Review

"Here speak the mute heralds of roadside America, the visual punctuation of modern national landscape."

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Iowa Press
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0877458901
• ISBN 13: 9780877458906
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 219