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Friday, May 2nd 2008
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Thomas Zeller, Department of History, University of Maryland
Subject: Consuming Landscapes: Parkways and Driving Cultures in the United States and Germany, 1920-1970
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
This paper will explore the way roads have been redesigned for the automobile as parkways since the 1920s in the United States and Germany, what meanings they acquired, and how drivers and passengers experienced them. In particular, I will compare the driving experience on the Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia and North Carolina and the Deutsche Alpenstrasse in southern Germany. Construction on both roads began in the 1930s, yet under most different political regimes.
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