Signs orient, inform, persuade, and regulate. They help give meaning to our natural and human-built environment, to landscape and place. In Signs in AmericaOCOs 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 surroundingsOCothe ways we OC readOCO landscape. With an emphasis on how the use of signs changed as the nationOCOs 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."
- ISBN10 1587294826
- ISBN13 9781587294822
- Publish Date 14 May 2014 (first published 1 April 2004)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Iowa Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 257
- Language English