Arthur J. Krim

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Arthur J. 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 , Massachusetts Historical Commission and others. He has published in Landscape, the , and the Journal of Historical Geography.[1] In 2016, he was an advocate for designating the Boston Citgo sign, which The Atlantic called "one of the hub's best known pieces of technology" but was threatened with dismantling, as a historic landmark.[2] The Boston Globe referred to Krim as "the sign's unofficial historian".[3]

Books[]

Krim wrote the book Route 66: Iconography of the American Highway (originally published in 2005),[4] 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.[5]

Notes[]

  1. ^ "About the Author: Arthur Krim". GFT Publishing. 2005. Archived from the original on January 4, 2019. Retrieved 2019-05-27.
  2. ^ LaFrance, Adrienne (July 2016). "The Blinking Jewel in Boston's Skyline". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2019-05-27.
  3. ^ Logan, Tim (June 16, 2016). "What will happen to the Citgo sign?". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 2019-05-27.(subscription may be required or content may be available in libraries)
  4. ^ 2005/2014, ISBN 193006635X/1938086163
  5. ^ "John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize". American Association of Geographers. Archived from the original on February 3, 2019. Retrieved 2019-05-27.
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