The Folklore of the Freeway : Race and Revolt in the Modernist City /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Avila, Eric, 1968- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Express highways > Social aspects.
City planning.
ARCHITECTURE > History > Contemporary (1945- )
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Autoroutes > Aspect social > États-Unis.
City planning > United States.
Express highways > Social aspects > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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