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Lots of Parking: Land Use in a Car Culture
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April 1, 2005
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Lots of Parking: Land Use in a Car Culture. By John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2004. xiii + 293 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. $34.95.
"I have trained myself to see what others overlook." Thus Sherlock Holmes (in "A case of Identity") accounted for his success. In Lots of Parking: Land Use in a Car Culture, John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle have done the same, yielding the first scholarly monograph on an overlooked but overwhelming force in American social geography.
Even in their dormant state, cars have been forceful agents of transformation. In Lots of Parking the authors (a cultural geographer and a historian) discuss immobile ...
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