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CONTENTS Introduction 1. Before the Car Part I Producing a Landscape of Signs 2. A Nation on Wheels 3. The Culture of Mobility 4. Producing Mobile Audiences and Corridors of Consumption 5. The Aesthetics of Speed and the Powers of "Picturization" 6. Modern Art and Advertising Part II Distributing Traffic and Trade: Decentralization and the Birth of the Strip 7. Visualizing Distribution 8. The Consolidation and Growth of National Advertising 9. Traffic and Trade: "Buying Power in Motion" 10. An Architecture of Mobility 11. The Strip Part III "The Billboard War": Scenic Sisters and the Business of Highway Beautification 12. "The Billboard War" 13. When Separate Spheres Collide 14. The Pastoral View 15. "Billboard Barons" 16. Zoning and the Road to Federal Legislation 17. Losers and Winners Conclusion: The Road Ahead Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Illustration Credits Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Advertising, Outdoor United States History 20th century, Billboards United States History 20th century, Consumption (Economics) United States History 20th century, Automobile travel United States History 20th century