The interstate system is the final stage of American highway development. As the automobile became more prevalent, faster, and ultimately essential to our way of life, the landscape was modified to accommodate this new necessity. The automotive highway was built on paths, tracks, pikes, roads of a horse and pedestrian era. In the early period […] The automobilist was an adventurer challenging territory and terrain. But soon changes came to the road itself […] There was a whole set of accouterments to accommodate the needs and desires of drivers, passengers, automobiles, and the road itself. Any stretch of road came to contain information for orientation, direction, and traffic management. Its signs, lights, and stripes, became second nature. There were places to service the car and to serve the mobile populace. The landscape – urban, suburban, rural, became an automotive one.
Kenneth I. Helpland, “The 1950s and the birth of contemporary landscape”, Places, Volume 5, nº2, pp. 40-49, 1988.
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