By Francesca Russello Ammon
The bulldozer functioned as either the ability and the metaphor for this paintings. because the computing device reworked from a wartime weapon into an device of postwar making plans, it helped detect a landscape-altering “culture of clearance.” within the arms of the army, planners, politicians, engineers, development staff, or even children’s e-book authors, the bulldozer turned an American icon. but social and environmental injustices emerged as clearance tasks persisted unabated. This information spurred environmental, preservationist, and citizen participation efforts that experience helped to sluggish, notwithstanding no longer solely cease, the momentum of the postwar bulldozer.
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