Transport buildings--railway stations, airport terminals, bus and coach stations, motorway service areas, filling stations, and garages--are such a part of everyday scenery they are easily overlooked. This book is the first to take a close look at the architecture of British transport buildings of the twentieth century, a period during which transportation systems, methods, and even purposes underwent enormous change.
The contributors to the book consider transport buildings both well known and unfamiliar from a variety of intriguing viewpoints. They explore the design and promotion...
Transport buildings--railway stations, airport terminals, bus and coach stations, motorway service areas, filling stations, and garages--are such a...
The Life of the Automobile is the first comprehensive world history of the car.
The automobile has arguably shaped the modern era more profoundly than any other human invention, and author Steven Parissien examines the impact, development, and significance of the automobile over its turbulent and colorful 130-year history. Readers learn the grand and turbulent history of the motor car, from its earliest appearance in the 1880s--as little more than a powered quadricycle--and the innovations of the early pioneer carmakers. The author examines the advances of the interwar era,...
The Life of the Automobile is the first comprehensive world history of the car.
The automobile has arguably shaped the modern era more...
The railway station is one of England s most distinctive and best-loved building-types. Yet over the past century the nation s stations have often been overlooked or dismissed, and have suffered accordingly. Today a new interest in railways fuelled by the need for sustainability, by a growing awareness of the realities of transport economics and by the dedication of enthusiastic volunteers at heritage railways across the country has sparked a renaissance for the historic railway station and a new appreciation of the aesthetic virtues and regeneration potential of imaginative station...
The railway station is one of England s most distinctive and best-loved building-types. Yet over the past century the nation s stations have often bee...
