Author: Frank H. Atkinson
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Category : Sign painting
Languages : en
Pages : 246

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Author: Martin Treu
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 142140494X
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 429

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Treu tackles the architectural history and signage of Main Street and the strip—from painted boards nailed over crude storefronts to sleek cinemas topped with neon glitz. Honorable Mention, Architecture and Urban Planning, 2012 PROSE Awards Signs, Streets, and Storefronts addresses more than 200 years of signs and place-marking along America’s commercial corridors. From small-town squares to Broadway, State Street, and Wilshire Boulevard, Martin Treu follows design developments into the present and explores issues of historic preservation. Treu considers “common” architecture and its place-defining business signs as well as influential high-style design examples by taste-making leaders. Combining advertising and architectural history, the book presents a full picture of the commercial landscape, including design adaptations made for motorists and the migration from Main Street to suburbia. The dynamic between individual businesses and the common good has a major effect on the appearance of our country's Main Streets. Several forces are at work: technological advances, design imagination and the media, corporate propaganda, customer needs, and municipal mandates. Present-day controls have often led to a denuding of traditional commercial corridors. Such reform, Treu argues, has suppressed originality and radically cleared away years of accumulated history based on the taste of a single generation. A must-read for city planners, town councils, architects, sign designers, concerned citizens, and anyone who cares about the appearance and vitality of America’s commercial streets, this heavily illustrated book is equally appealing to armchair historians, small-town enthusiasts, and lovers of Americana.

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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 698

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Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 786

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Author: Detroit Public Library
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 566

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Author: Detroit Public Library
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Category : Catalogs, Classified (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 530

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Author: Detroit Public Library
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Category : Industrial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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Author: Newton Free Library
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Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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Author: Berkshire Athenaeum and Museum
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Category : Public libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 338

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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 238

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