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The folklore of the freeway : race and revolt in the modernist city /
When the interstate highway program connected America's cities, it also divided them, cutting through and destroying countless communities. Affluent and predominantly white residents fought back in a much heralded "freeway revolt," saving such historic neighborhoods as Greenwich Villa...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | Quadrant Book.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Preface; Introduction: The Invisible Freeway Revolt; 1. The Master's Plan: The Rise and Fall of the Modernist City; 2. "Nobody but a Bunch of Mothers": Fighting the Highwaymen during Feminism's Second Wave; 3. Communities Lost and Found: The Politics of Historical Memory; 4. A Matter of Perspective: The Racial Politics of Seeing the Freeway; 5. Taking Back the Freeway: Strategies of Adaptation and Improvisation; Conclusion: Identity Politics in Post-Interstate America; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z.