Reinventing the Automobile: Personal Urban Mobility for the 21st Century Reviews

Reinventing the Automobile: Personal Urban Mobility for the 21st Century

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This book provides a long-overdue vision for a new automobile era. The cars we drive today follow the same underlying design principles as the Model Ts of a hundred years ago and the tail-finned sedans of fifty years ago. In the twenty-first century, cars are still made for twentieth-century purposes. They’re well suited for conveying multiple passengers over long distances at high speeds, but inefficient for providing personal mobility within cities—where most of the world’s people now live.

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Carjacked: The Culture of the Automobile and Its Effect on Our Lives Reviews

Carjacked: The Culture of the Automobile and Its Effect on Our Lives

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Carjacked   is an in-depth look at our obsession with cars. While the automobile’s contribution to global warming and the effects of volatile gas prices is widely known, the problems we face every day because of our cars are much more widespread and yet much less known — from the surprising ,000 that the average family pays each year for the vehicles it owns, to the increase in rates of obesity and asthma to which cars contribute, to the 40,000 deaths and 2.5 million crash injuries eac

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Automobiles Lost & Found: Extraordinary Stories of Long-Lost Cars Rediscovered

Automobiles Lost & Found: Extraordinary Stories of Long-Lost Cars Rediscovered

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To anyone who is not a keen motoring enthusiast a book about finding often-decaying cars in very unlikely places would be a real turn-off. But to many who profess an enthusiasm for veteran, vintage of classic vehicles the reverse is the case. Every one of them has the secret hope that one day he or she will open that derelict barn or shed and find a very desirable Aston Martin, Jaguar or Rolls-Royce, perhaps even a veteran De Dion Bouton or a Panhard Levassor. In truth if they do have the luck t

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ARTLAB: Car Design Studio

ARTLAB: Car Design Studio

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This all-inclusive art kit puts young gearheads behind the wheel of their dream car! Kids will learn how to illustrate customized cars using a light table, colored pencils, acetate overlays printed with simple traceable outlines of car silhouettes and 95 traceable ‘cling’ accessory add-ons. Includes instructions for creating 10 customized cars, but that’s just the beginning! Kids, start your engines and let your imagination race toward the finish line!

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horizontal light tabl

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Lee Friedlander: America by Car

Lee Friedlander: America by Car

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Enduring icons of American culture, the car and the highway remain vital as auguries of adventure and discovery, and a means by which to take in the country’s vast scale. Lee Friedlander is the first photographer to make the car an actual “form” for making photographs. Driving across most of the country’s 50 states in an ordinary rental car, Friedlander applied the brilliantly simple conceit of deploying the sideview mirror, rearview mirror, the windshield and the side windows as a picture frame

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How Cars Work

How Cars Work

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An Illustrated Guide to the 250 Most Important Car Parts and how they work.

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Diesel switch engine moving freight cars at the South water street freight terminal of the Illinois Central R.R., Chicago, Ill. The N.Y. Central is one of the railroads that lease terminal facilities from the I.C.R.R. (LOC)

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Diesel switch engine moving freight cars at the South water street freight terminal of the Illinois Central R.R., Chicago, Ill. The N.Y. Central is one of the railroads that lease terminal facilities from the I.C.R.R. (LOC)
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Image by The Library of Congress
Delano, Jack,, photographer.

Diesel switch engine moving freight cars at the South water street freight terminal of the Illinois Central R.R., Chicago, Ill. The N.Y. Central is one of the railroads that lease terminal facilities from the I.C.R.R.

1943 April

1 transparency : color.

Notes:
Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.
Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.

Subjects:
Illinois Central Railroad
World War, 1939-1945
Railroad freight cars
Office buildings
United States–Illinois–Chicago

Format: Transparencies–Color

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Part Of: Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Collection 12002-11 (DLC) 93845501

General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a34776

Call Number: LC-USW36-594

Z Cars Tuned Racing Mini
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You can read more about Z Cars here.

Looking toward the Chicago and Northwestern railroad classification yard. The trestle runs from the ice house to the yard. The old cars in the foreground are used as living quarters for some yard workers and itinerant help. Town of Melrose Park is in back
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Image by The Library of Congress
Delano, Jack,, photographer.

Looking toward the Chicago and Northwestern railroad classification yard. The trestle runs from the ice house to the yard. The old cars in the foreground are used as living quarters for some yard workers and itinerant help. Town of Melrose Park is in background

1942 Dec.

1 transparency : color.

Notes:
Proviso Yards.
Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.
Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.

Subjects:
Chicago and North Western Railway Company
World War, 1939-1945
Railroad shops & yards
Snow
United States–Illinois–Melrose Park

Format: Transparencies–Color

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Part Of: Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Collection 12002-1 (DLC) 93845501

General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a34626

Call Number: LC-USW36-532

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The Automobile and American Life

The Automobile and American Life

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This is the story of how the essence of life in America changed because of the widespread adoption of the automobile, the people and institutions behind those changes, and how American car culture has been represented in film, song, poetry and literature. The book covers the automobile from its inception as a mechanical curiosity and later a plaything for the well-to-do; Henry Ford and the rise of the machine age; competition and the evolving consumer in the 1920s; the development of roads and t

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Design and Destiny: The Making of the Tucker Automobile

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Curves of Steel: Streamlined Automobile Design

Curves of Steel: Streamlined Automobile Design

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A deluxe volume that explores the evolution of the streamlined automotive shape from the 1930s to the 1990s. Originally produced as the official catalog for a 2007 exhibition at the Phoenix Museum of Art, Curves of Steel celebrates the intersection of style and aerodynamics that is the hallmark of streamlined design in the twentieth century. The book features some of the most important examples of streamlined automobiles, which top scholars selected from North America’s most significa

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Automobile 7 of 7
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PhotoChallenge.org May Challenge 2008: Automobile – Truck 7 of 7

24ème Festival International de l’Automobile 2009
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Le Festival International de l’Automobile 2009, à Paris, Hotel des Invalides, le 11 Février 2009.
De magnifiques Concepts Cars présentés, et la présence de nombreux people lors de la soirée Presse du Mardi 11 Février 2009.
Alain Prost, Lewis Hamilton, Nikos Aliágas, Rachida Dati, Ron Dennis …

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Planes, Trains & Automobiles
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Image by Sugar Daze (f/k/a LittleMissCupcakeParis)
This one reminds me of the back-up at Laguardia on a busy day!

A week ago, I donated a gift of 2 dozen Little Miss Cupcake cupcakes to an auction to raise money for breast cancer research. I was contacted by the winner the very next day to see if she could get her cupcakes for this weekend when her two boys, aged 3 & 4 would be celebrating their birthdays. She told me they liked tools, animals and transport vehicles. I thought some planes, trains & automobiles would be cute!

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Diesel switch engineer moving freight cars at the South Water street freight terminal of the Illinois Central R.R., Chicago, Ill. The N.Y. Central is one of the railroads that lease terminal facilities from the I.C.R.R. (LOC)

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Diesel switch engineer moving freight cars at the South Water street freight terminal of the Illinois Central R.R., Chicago, Ill. The N.Y. Central is one of the railroads that lease terminal facilities from the I.C.R.R. (LOC)
2178419727 b8bf812414 Diesel switch engineer moving freight cars at the South Water street freight terminal of the Illinois Central R.R., Chicago, Ill. The N.Y. Central is one of the railroads that lease terminal facilities from the I.C.R.R. (LOC)

Image by The Library of Congress
Delano, Jack,, photographer.

Diesel switch engineer moving freight cars at the South Water street freight terminal of the Illinois Central R.R., Chicago, Ill. The N.Y. Central is one of the railroads that lease terminal facilities from the I.C.R.R.

1943 April

1 transparency : color.

Notes:
Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.
Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.

Subjects:
Illinois Central Railroad
World War, 1939-1945
Railroad freight cars
United States–Illinois–Chicago

Format: Transparencies–Color

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Part Of: Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Collection 12002-11 (DLC) 93845501

General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a34775

Call Number: LC-USW36-593

IN CAR PHOTOGRAPHY
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This series of images are taken when sitting in my car.
In this case it was snowing and it was so cold, after 90 minutes shooting my fingers didn’t function anymore, so I decided to leave the location, but when sitting in my car the idae came to my mind to shoot IN CAR!!!!
In fact it was foggy and the snow was melting on the window sliding down in a slow motion mode which has created the effects as you see.
All images in this series are treated in PS, added appropriate filter+moe contrast.
Hope you like it.

Re: the location is where the set REFLECTION comes from.

Old Cars Part 1
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Image by seanmcgrath
Met up with Searmid today to take some shots at a local farm that had some awesome abandonned cars that have been there for probably over 30 years. I had so many good shots and variations on the same shot it was really hard to narrow it down to only a few to post. I’ll likely try some HDR later and post some of the variations in the coming weeks.

I used a Graduated ND8 for the sky on this shot. I had accidentally left my ISO at 800 for this shot as well, but ened up liking the effect it gave in the end. This is one of my favorite shots of the day.

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