Download or read book Asphalt Nation written by Jane Holtz Kay and published by Crown. This book was released on 2012-06-20 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asphalt Nation is a major work of urban studies that examines how the automobile has ravaged America’s cities and landscape, and how we can fight back. The automobile was once seen as a boon to American life, eradicating the pollution caused by horses and granting citizens new levels of personal freedom and mobility. But it was not long before the servant became the master—public spaces were designed to accommodate the automobile at the expense of the pedestrian, mass transportation was neglected, and the poor, unable to afford cars, saw their access to jobs and amenities worsen. Now even drivers themselves suffer, as cars choke the highways and pollution and congestion have replaced the fresh air of the open road. Today our world revolves around the car—as a nation, we spend eight billion hours a year stuck in traffic. In Asphalt Nation, Jane Holtz Kay effectively calls for a revolution to reverse our automobile-dependency. Citing successful efforts in places from Portland, Maine, to Portland, Oregon, Kay shows us that radical change is not impossible by any means. She demonstrates that there are economic, political, architectural, and personal solutions that can steer us out of the mess. Asphalt Nation is essential reading for everyone interested in the history of our relationship with the car, and in the prospect of returning to a world of human mobility.
Download or read book Automobile Book 1998 written by Consumer Guide and published by Consumer Guide Books. This book was released on 1998-01-19 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you're interested in passenger cars, sport-utility vehicles, trucks, or minivans, all are discussed in this invaluable guide to the new 1998 vehicles! Over 165 cars, trucks, and vans are reviewed and rated in every important category, from price to handling to options. Don't make an uninformed decision--get the guide that takes the hassle out of car buying!
Download or read book Used Car Book 1998 written by Consumer Guide and published by Consumer Guide Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated for 1998, this is the guide that profiles more than 200 popular used car models from the past decade, and discusses all of the important aspects to consider when choosing the right used car. Includes price ranges, warranty information, recall information, year-to-year changes, and over 450 photos.
Download or read book History of the Electric Automobile written by Ernest Henry Wakefield and published by SAE International. This book was released on 1998-10-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a century, people have attempted to harness electricity, the clean and versatile fuel, for personal transportation. With impressive technical clarity and historical insight, author Ernest Wakefield reviews these attempts in History of the Electric Automobile: Hybrid Electric Vehicles. He focuses exclusively on electric vehicles that harness the potential of electricity when combined with another energy source - hybrid electric vehicles (HEV). The book details the historical development of capacitors, engines, flywheels, fuel cells, inductive charging, and solar cells - and the application of each to hybrid electric vehicles.
Download or read book Automotive Detailing written by Don Taylor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1998 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully illustrated sections include how to detail for show competition, the latest in detailing technology, products and equipment, setting up an auto detailing business, and more.
Download or read book Cars 1998 written by Consumer Guide and published by Consumer Guide Books. This book was released on 1998-01-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 150 passenger cars, mini vans, and four-wheel drive vehicles are reviewed in this all-new 1998 edition. Ratings cover key areas, including performance, workmanship, options, and value, allowing prospective buyers to make an informed decision. Full profiles and photos of all the new car models.
Download or read book The Used Car Book 1998 written by Jack Gillis and published by Harper Paperbacks. This book was released on 1998-06-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the best sourcebooks available for used car buyers, this comprehensive guide by a foremost automotive consumer expert profiles more than 150 types of cars and minivans. 300 photos.
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Download or read book New Car Buying Guide 1998 written by Consumer Reports and published by . This book was released on 1998-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest compilation of reviews and ratings from Consumer Reports covers 1998 model cars, trucks, minivans, and sport-utility vehicles, and includes the magazine's recommended models.
Download or read book Chrysler Engines 1922 1998 written by Willem L Weertman and published by SAE International. This book was released on 2007-10-26 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book chronicles over 75 years of engine design, development, and production at Chrysler Corporation. Every production engine built by Chrysler is covered in detail, with descriptions, pictures, specifications, and timelines provided for each. In addition to the specifications, the book also looks at the personalities behind the engines' development, and the vehicles in which the engines were used.
Download or read book The Car Book 1998 written by Jack Gillis and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1997-11-27 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Completely updated, The Car Book 1998 provides more of the information new car buyers want in a user-friendly format that stands head and shoulders above the competition. Divided alphabetically by maker and then model, the guide contains full-page entries for 140 new cars and minivans, featuring a brief narrative summary and photo of each model.
Download or read book 1998 AAA Autograph Book written by American Automobile Association and published by . This book was released on 1997-12-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews and ratings of 1998 cars, pickups, sport-utility vehicles and minivans.
Download or read book Complete Guide to Used Cars 1998 written by Consumer Guide and published by Signet Book. This book was released on 1998-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few car books cover the used car market, yet more and more consumers are purchasing used cars over new ones. This handy guide will aid in making an educated decision to separate the winners from the losers. Includes profiles of over 200 car models sold over the past two decades.
Download or read book Comeback written by Paul Ingrassia and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Comeback, Pulitzer Prize-winners Paul Ingrassia and Joseph B. White take us to the boardrooms, the executive offices, and the shop floors of the auto business to reconstruct, in riveting detail, how America's premier industry stumbled, fell, and picked itself up again. The story begins in 1982, when Honda started building cars in Marysville, Ohio, and the entire U.S. car industry seemed to be on the brink of extinction. It ends just over a decade later, with a remarkable turn of the tables, as Japan's car industry falters and America's Big Three emerge as formidable global competitors. Comeback is a story propelled by larger-than-life characters -- Lee Iacocca, Henry Ford II, Don Petersen, Roger Smith, among many others -- and their greed, pride, and sheer refusal to face facts. But it is also a story full of dedicated, unlikely heroes who struggled to make the Big Three change before it was too late.
Download or read book Automobile Year 1998 99 written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Complete Car Cost Guide 1998 written by Steven Gross and published by Intellichoice Incorporated. This book was released on 1998-02 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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