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Author : Automotive Safety Foundation
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Postwar Highway Planning written by Automotive Safety Foundation and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nicholas Dagen Bloom
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022649831X
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)
Download or read book How States Shaped Postwar America written by Nicholas Dagen Bloom and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of public policy in postwar America tends to fixate on developments at the national level, overlooking the crucial work done by individual states in the 1960s and ’70s. In this book, Nicholas Dagen Bloom demonstrates the significant and enduring impact of activist states in five areas: urban planning and redevelopment, mass transit and highways, higher education, subsidized housing, and the environment. Bloom centers his story on the example set by New York governor Nelson Rockefeller, whose aggressive initiatives on the pressing issues in that period inspired others and led to the establishment of long-lived state polices in an age of decreasing federal power. Metropolitan areas, for both better and worse, changed and operated differently because of sustained state action—How States Shaped Postwar America uncovers the scope of this largely untold story.
Author : June Manning Thomas
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814339085
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)
Download or read book Redevelopment and Race written by June Manning Thomas and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the decades following World War II, professional city planners in Detroit made a concerted effort to halt the city's physical and economic decline. Their successes included an award-winning master plan, a number of laudable redevelopment projects, and exemplary planning leadership in the city and the nation. Yet despite their efforts, Detroit was rapidly transforming into a notorious symbol of urban decay. In Redevelopment and Race: Planning a Finer City in Postwar Detroit, June Manning Thomas takes a look at what went wrong, demonstrating how and why government programs were ineffective and even destructive to community needs. In confronting issues like housing shortages, blight in older areas, and changing economic conditions, Detroit's city planners worked during the urban renewal era without much consideration for low-income and African American residents, and their efforts to stabilize racially mixed neighborhoods faltered as well. Steady declines in industrial prowess and the constant decentralization of white residents counteracted planners' efforts to rebuild the city. Among the issues Thomas discusses in this volume are the harmful impacts of Detroit's highways, the mixed record of urban renewal projects like Lafayette Park, the effects of the 1967 riots on Detroit's ability to plan, the city-building strategies of Coleman Young (the city's first black mayor) and his mayoral successors, and the evolution of Detroit's federally designated Empowerment Zone. Examining the city she knew first as an undergraduate student at Michigan State University and later as a scholar and planner, Thomas ultimately argues for a different approach to traditional planning that places social justice, equity, and community ahead of purely physical and economic objectives. Redevelopment and Race was originally published in 1997 and was given the Paul Davidoff Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning in 1999. Students and teachers of urban planning will be grateful for this re-release. A new postscript offers insights into changes since 1997.
Author : Charles Melville Upham
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Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Sound Plan for Post-war Roads and Jobs written by Charles Melville Upham and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bruce Edsall Seely
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780877224723
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (247 download)
Download or read book Building the American Highway System written by Bruce Edsall Seely and published by . This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Roads
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1118 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Federal Aid for Post-war Highway Construction written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Roads and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 1118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark H. Rose
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 1572337834
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (723 download)
Download or read book Interstate written by Mark H. Rose and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2012-03-30 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 analyze the subsequent urban freeway revolts, when citizen protest groups battled highway builders in San Francisco, Baltimore, Memphis, New Orleans, Washington, DC, and other cities. Their detailed research in the archival records of the Bureau of Public Roads, the Federal Highway Administration, and the U.S. Department of Transportation brings to light significant evidence of federal action to tame the spreading freeway revolts, curb the authority of state highway engineers, and promote the devolution of transportation decision making to the state and regional level. They analyze the passage of congressional legislation in the 1990s, especially the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA), that initiated a major shift of Highway Trust Fund dollars to mass transit and light rail, as well as to hiking trails and bike lanes. Mohl and Rose conclude with the surprising popularity of the recent freeway teardown movement, an effort to replace deteriorating, environmentally damaging, and sometimes dangerous elevated expressway segments through the inner cities. Sometimes led by former anti-highway activists of the 1960s and 1970s, teardown movements aim to restore the urban street grid, provide space for new streetcar lines, and promote urban revitalization efforts. This revised edition continues to be marked by accessible writing and solid research by two well-known scholars.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Public Buildings and Grounds
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 774 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Post-war Planning, No. 2 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Public Buildings and Grounds and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Bureau of Public Roads. Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book A Bibliography of Highway Planning Reports written by United States. Bureau of Public Roads. Library and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Interstate Commerce Commission
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Motor Carrier Facilities, War Use and Postwar Needs written by United States. Interstate Commerce Commission and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Post-War Economic Policy and Planning
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1726 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Post-war Economic Policy and Planning written by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Post-War Economic Policy and Planning and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 1726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. House. Special Committee on Post-War Economic Policy and Planning
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2230 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Post-War Economic Policy and Planning written by United States. Congress. House. Special Committee on Post-War Economic Policy and Planning and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 2230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Highways and Agricultural Engineering, Current Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Emmanuel V. Marmaras
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319076477
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Planning London for the Post-War Era 1945-1960 written by Emmanuel V. Marmaras and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the formation of the post-Second World War reconstruction and planning machinery in Great Britain, the re-planning efforts undertaken in post-war London, and in particular the redevelopment programme regarding its central area in the form of the comprehensive development projects. Originating from a PhD Thesis, the book recreates the atmosphere following step by step arguments and events at various political, socio-economic and technical levels. It also contributes to the understanding of succeeding developments in terms of planning theory and practice. The book is structured into three parts. The first one explores the administrative and statutory developments in town planning matters during the period 1940-59. The second part deals with the plans proposed for London as a whole from independent and official organisations mainly during the 1940s. Finally, the third part examines the proposed projects for the rebuilding of the City of London and for special areas of Central London that suffered from bombing on both sides of the Thames.
Author : United States. Public Roads Administration
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Express Highways in the United States written by United States. Public Roads Administration and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Bureau of Public Roads. Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Bibliography of Highway Planning Reports Compiled written by United States. Bureau of Public Roads. Library and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Francesca Russello Ammon
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300220545
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Bulldozer written by Francesca Russello Ammon and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the decades following World War II stand out as an era of rapid growth and construction in the United States, those years were equally significant for large-scale destruction. In order to clear space for new suburban tract housing, an ambitious system of interstate highways, and extensive urban renewal development, wrecking companies demolished buildings while earthmoving contractors leveled land at an unprecedented pace and scale. In this pioneering history, Francesca Russello Ammon explores how postwar America came to equate this destruction with progress. The bulldozer functioned as both the means and the metaphor for this work. As the machine transformed from a wartime weapon into an instrument of postwar planning, it helped realize a landscape-altering “culture of clearance.” In the hands of the military, planners, politicians, engineers, construction workers, and even children’s book authors, the bulldozer became an American icon. Yet social and environmental injustices emerged as clearance projects continued unabated. This awareness spurred environmental, preservationist, and citizen participation efforts that have helped to slow, though not entirely stop, the momentum of the postwar bulldozer.
