Arthur Krim

Arthur Krim is a geographer and architectural historian. He was a founding member of the Society for Commercial Archeology, a preservationist group.

Krim has taught at the Boston Architectural Center, Clark University, and Salve Regina University, and has consulted for the Cambridge Historical Commission, Massachusetts Historical Commission and others. He has published in Landscape, the Journal of Cultural Geography, and the Journal of Historical Geography.[1]

Books

Krim has written the book Route 66: Iconography of the American Highway,[2] about U.S. Route 66, which received the J. B. Jackson prize of the American Association of Geographers for the best book in cultural geography in 2006.[3]

Notes

  1. GFT Publishing, "About the Author" of Route 66: Iconography of the American Highway, the Commemorative Edition
  2. 2005/2014, ISBN 193006635X/ 1938086163
  3. American Association of Geographers, "John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize"
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