Interstate : highway politics and policy since 1939 /

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This new, expanded edition brings the story of the Interstates into the twenty-first century. It includes an account of the destruction of homes, businesses, and communities as the urban expressways of the highway network destroyed large portions of the nation's central cities. Mohl and Rose an...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rose, Mark H., 1942-
Otros Autores: Mohl, Raymond A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, ©2012.
Edición:3rd ed.
Temas:
Express highways > United States > History.
Express highways > Government policy > United States > History.
Transportation and state > United States > History.
Autoroutes > États-Unis > Histoire.
Autoroutes > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis > Histoire.
Transport > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis > Histoire.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Transportation.
TRANSPORTATION > Public Transportation.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > General.
Express highways
Express highways > Government policy
Transportation and state
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Rebuilding America: express highways and visions of reform, 1890-1941
  • Planning for postwar America, 1941-1944
  • The politics of highway finance, 1945-1950
  • Project Adequate Roads: traffic jams, business, and government, 1951-1954
  • The highway and the city, 1945-1955
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower and express highway politics, 1954-1955
  • The Interstate Highway Act of 1956
  • The interstates and the cities
  • Stop the road: freeway revolts in American cities
  • The U.S. Department of Transportation and the freeway revolt
  • ISTEA and the reframing of American highway politics, 1956-1995
  • The freeway teardown movement in American cities.

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