This stimulating book about architecture and the constantly revised physical profile of America traces the changes from log cabins to skyscrapers, from covered bridges to marvels of steel that span miles of water, from macadam roads to super highways, and shows how each new development is the result of newly-felt needs and desires of the American people. Telling how city planners today can benefit by the triumphs and failures of their predecessors,
this visual history urges that artists and engineers combine their taste and technology to produce buildings, parks. and highways which are things of beauty and will serve man efficiently.