Odology

Odology

Odology is the science or study of roads and motorways, from the Greek word "odos" or "hodos", meaning road. The word "odology" was coined by the geographer John Brinckerhoff Jackson in "Discovering the Vernacular Landscape", and refers to their cultural, economic and spiritual meaning.

External links

* [http://www.otterbein.edu/home/fac/FRNXBRSC/ Homepage of an academic with an interest in odology] .
* [http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/dis/01korr.htm A dissertation involving odology] .


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