中文简介：

本书将带领读者踏上一段穿越时空的摄影之旅，讲述了汽车时代的道路标志物：加油站的故事。从20世纪初的汽车时代开始，当时的汽车只能在原始的手动加油泵上加油，到20世纪 30年代至50年代加油站概念鼎盛时期的标志性建筑，有时甚至是奇异的建筑。

蕞后一部分探讨了废弃加油站的后世，并研究了其在城市历史景观中的适应性再利用和作为建筑遗产的地位。从世界各地的档案中精心挑选的犭虫特历史照片，让人们深入了解了汽油配送的建筑和空间元素，同时也探讨了加油站的社会层面，即作为路边绿洲，各行各业的人们在短暂停留时都会在此相遇。

英文简介：

This book takes the reader on a photographic journey through time, telling the story of the roadside beacons of the automobile age: the gas stations. Starting from the very early years of motoring at the dawn of the 20th century, when cars would fill up at a primitive manual gas pump, to the iconic and sometimes bizarre structures of the heyday of the gas station concept in the 1930s through the 1950s.

A concluding section looks at the afterlife of the disused gas station and investigates its adaptive reuse and position as built heritage within the historic urban landscape. Carefully selected and unique historical photographs from archives across the world give insight into the architectural and spatial elements of gasoline distribution, but equally looks into the social aspect of the gas station, as a roadside oasis where people of all walks of life would meet, during a brief stop-over.