Make way
Subtitle: how roads are still changing the world, and all of us
By: Ted Conover.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 333
ISBN-13: 9781400042449
Subjects: Conover, Ted -- Travel; Roads -- Social aspects
Description: A spirited, urgent book that reveals the costs and benefits of being connected--how, from ancient Rome to the present, roads have played a crucial role in human life, advancing civilization even as they set it back.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Forest primeval to park avenue road, or not a road?; title: Slipping from Shangri-La road ecology; title: The road is very unfair double-edged roads; title: A war you can commute to speed up!; title: Capitalist roaders growing broadway; title: Drive soft : life no get duplicate.