Signs in America's Auto Age

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Signs in America's Auto Age is written by John A. Jakle and published by University of Iowa Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1587294826 (ISBN 10) and 9781587294822 (ISBN 13).

Signs orient, inform, persuade, and regulate. They help give meaning to our natural and human-built environment, to landscape and place. In Signs in America’s Auto Age, 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—the ways we “read” landscape. With an emphasis on how the use of signs changed as the nation’s geography reorganized around the coming of the automobile, Jakle and Sculle consider the vast array of signs that have evolved since the beginning of the twentieth century.