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Power Moves : Transportation, Politics, and Development in Houston.

<P>Since World War II, Houston has become a burgeoning, internationally connected metropolis?and a sprawling, car-dependent city. In 1950, it possessed only one highway, the Gulf Freeway, which ran between Houston and Galveston. Today, Houston and Harris County have more than 1,200 miles of hi...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Shelton, Kyle
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2018.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction; 1. Building a Highway Metropolis: The Origins and Advent of Houstonâ#x80;#x99;s Postwar Growth; 2. Whose Highways? Planning, Politics, and Consequences; 3. â#x80;#x9C;Only You Can Prevent Another Freewayâ#x80;#x9D;: The Harrisburg Freeway and the Struggle to Shape a Neighborhood; 4. Infrastructural Elections: Transit Referenda in the 1970s; 5. By Road or by Rail? The 1983 Transit Debate; 6. The Legacies and Limits of Infrastructural Citizenship; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Notes.