Interstate : highway politics and policy since 1939 /
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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Language: | English |
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Knoxville :
University of Tennessee Press,
©2012.
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Edition: | 3rd ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.