What does the way you drive say about you? Does the road mirror society or do we all turn into our alter egos when we get in our cars? Does traffic work the same all over the world? This book answers these and other questions, viewing traffic as a leading cultural indicator and a model of emergent collective behaviour.
What does the way you drive say about you? Does the road mirror society or do we all turn into our alter egos when we get in our cars? Does traffic wo...
On the road to Survival City, Tom Vanderbilt maps the visible and invisible legacies of the cold war, exhuming the blueprints for the apocalypse we once envisioned and chronicling a time when we all lived at ground zero. In this road trip among ruined missile silos, atomic storage bunkers, and secret test sites, a lost battleground emerges amid the architecture of the 1950s, accompanied by Walter Cotten's stunning photographs. Survival City looks deep into the national soul, unearthing the dreams and fears that drove us during the latter half of the twentieth...
On the road to Survival City, Tom Vanderbilt maps the visible and invisible legacies of the cold war, exhuming the blueprints for the apocal...
