# Consuming Landscapes: Parkways in Germany and the United States, 1920-1970

One of the earliest environmental repercussions of the 20th century's car culture were new roads celebrating landscape. In a seemingly paradoxical fashion, a new technology was used to embellish nature. This talk explores 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.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2008
- By: John W. Kluge Center (library Of Congress)
- Genres: Science, History
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2021687921/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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