No. 1-10 of 22 Books
Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America, and how We Can Take It Back
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.
Automobile Dependence and Denial: The Elephant in the Bedroom: Impacts on the
Economy and Environment
The elephant in question is the American automobile and its true cost to the citizenry, economy,
and environment. The authors, both engineers, provide a more reasoned, well-written, and
holistic introduction to the subject than one would expect from a manifesto. Their thesis is that
the automobile is much more expensive than we realize when taxes, parking, and environmental
concerns are considered. The answer to the problem, expounded at length, is full-cost pricing of
all automobiles, highways, and automobile by-products. Like most manifestos, this one has lots
of passion, no footnotes, and few numbers, and it treats competing ideas with disdain. Most
readers will need proof before agreeing that raising the cost of gasoline to $9 per gallon will
result in ``better familial discipline.'' Nevertheless, this is a compelling, informative book about
a very real problem.-- Kenneth M. Locke, Radford, Va.
Automobile Revolution: The Impact of an Industry
Automotive Giants of America: Men Who Are Making Our Motor Industry
Between Fordism and Flexibility: The Automobile Industry and Its Workers
Car Wars: Fifty Years of Backstabbing, Infighting, and Industrial Espionage in the Global Market
Car: A Drama of the American WorkPlace
Faced with the task of redesigning the Taurus, America's best-selling car and the flagship of its fleet, Ford Motor Company assembled
700 designers, engineers, planners, and bean-counters under a tough manager who set out to retake engineering and manufacturing
ground lost to the Japanese. On their shoulders rested the reputation and the profits of Ford, not to mention an investment of close to $3
billion. This biting, insightful account by a seasoned journalist follows the 1996 Taurus from its conception as a clay model in Detroit to
its birth in an Atlanta assembly plant to its public debut in a New Jersey dealership. Mary Walton, who was given unprecedented access
to the Taurus team, chronicles the clashes between designers and engineers, marketers and accountants, product guys and manufacturing
guys, to create a revealing portrait of the tension, the passions, and the pride that fuel the race to #1.
Carriages without Horses: J. Frank Duryea and the Birth of the American Automobile
Industry
China's Automobile Industry: Policies, Problems, and Prospects
Collective Bargaining in the Automobile Industry: A Study of Wage Structure and
Competitive Relations
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