America's National Park Roads and Parkways: Drawings from the Historic American Engineering Record (The Road and American Culture Series)
The roads within America's national park system reveal a wide range of technological, aesthetic, and philosophical concerns. Their design and construction epitomize the central challenge of national park management: how to balance environmental protection with public access. The Historic American Engineering Record (HAER), a division of the National Park Service, has spent more than a dozen years documenting the history of this vital aspect of the national park experience.\ America's National...
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"A marvelous compendium of information about road engineering, bridge building, and viaduct and tunnel construction that reveals the changing aesthetic of the National Park Service." -- David Schuyler, Franklin & Marshall College
\ TR NewsThe book presents 331 measured and interpretive drawings... to illustrate the physical characteristics, design strategies, construction practices, and visitor experiences of roads in national parks.\ \ \ \ \ Civil EngineeringThe final result is simply breathtaking, with incredibly rich drawings merged seamlessly with descriptive text and effectively paired with photographs.\ \ \ Yosemite AssociationThis is the first time such a collection has been amassed, and it's an outstanding achievement.\ \
