Excerpt from Techniques for Inventorying Manmade Impacts in Roadway Environments The public may encounter more environmental blights in driving than in any other pursuit. This is not new. Over 40 years ago a sociologist (joad 1928) wrote, One arrives after a motor journey all liver and no legs; one's mind asleep, one's body tired. One is bored, irritable, and listless. Whatever beauties the landscape might offer are hidden behind forbidding lines of advertising billboards. Now, however, we have over 3 million miles of rural roads and highways and nearly 87 million registered automobiles. Passen ger vehicles are driven approximately 835 billion miles each year, with perhaps two or more times as many passenger miles (u. S. Bureau of the Census Thus the indis criminate blighting of roadway corridors has a major and a growing impact on the visual quality of environmental experiences. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.