Down the Asphalt Path
Author | : Clay McShane |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1994 |
ISBN-10 | : OCLC:1035758050 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Download or read book Down the Asphalt Path written by Clay McShane and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: McShane begins with mid-nineteenth-century municipal bans on horseless carriages, a response to public fears of accidents and pollution. After cities redesigned roads to encourage new forms of transport, especially trolley cars, light carriages, and bicycles, the bans disappeared in the 1890s. With the advent of the automobile, metropolitan elites quickly and permanently established cars as status symbols. Down the Asphalt Path also explains the escapist appeal of the motor car to many Americans constrained by traditional social values.