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Book Synopsis People Before Highways by : Karilyn Crockett
Download or read book People Before Highways written by Karilyn Crockett and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction -- People before highways: stopping highways, building a regional social movement -- Battling desires: (re)defining progress -- Groundwork: imagining a highwayless future -- Planning for tomorrow not yesterday: "we were wrong"--New territory--city-making, searching for control -- Making victory stick: new dreams, new plans, new park
Book Synopsis Changing Lanes by : Joseph F. DiMento
Download or read book Changing Lanes written by Joseph F. DiMento and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the evolution of the urban freeway, the competing visions that informed it, and the emerging alternatives for more sustainable urban transportation. Urban freeways often cut through the heart of a city, destroying neighborhoods, displacing residents, and reconfiguring street maps. These massive infrastructure projects, costing billions of dollars in transportation funds, have been shaped for the last half century by the ideas of highway engineers, urban planners, landscape architects, and architects -- with highway engineers playing the leading role. In Changing Lanes, Joseph DiMento and Cliff Ellis describe the evolution of the urban freeway in the United States, from its rural parkway precursors through the construction of the interstate highway system to emerging alternatives for more sustainable urban transportation. DiMento and Ellis describe controversies that arose over urban freeway construction, focusing on three cases: Syracuse, which early on embraced freeways through its center; Los Angeles, which rejected some routes and then built I-105, the most expensive urban road of its time; and Memphis, which blocked the construction of I-40 through its core. Finally, they consider the emerging urban highway removal movement and other innovative efforts by cities to re-envision urban transportation.
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Roads Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :192 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (126 download)
Book Synopsis Urban Highways by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Roads
Download or read book Urban Highways written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Roads and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers the effects of urban highway systems on the total environment of the areas they serve.
Book Synopsis Urban Highways, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Roads ... by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works
Download or read book Urban Highways, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Roads ... written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Roads Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :660 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (6 download)
Book Synopsis Urban Highways by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Roads
Download or read book Urban Highways written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Roads and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers the effects of urban highway systems on the total environment of the areas they serve.
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Roads Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :464 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (15 download)
Book Synopsis Urban Highways by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Roads
Download or read book Urban Highways written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Roads and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Rethinking America's Highways by : Robert W. Poole
Download or read book Rethinking America's Highways written by Robert W. Poole and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-08-03 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A transportation expert makes a provocative case for changing the nation’s approach to highways, offering “bold, innovative thinking on infrastructure” (Rick Geddes, Cornell University). Americans spend hours every day sitting in traffic. And the roads they idle on are often rough and potholed, with exits, tunnels, guardrails, and bridges in terrible disrepair. According to transportation expert Robert Poole, this congestion and deterioration are outcomes of the way America manages its highways. Our twentieth-century model overly politicizes highway investment decisions, short-changing maintenance and often investing in projects whose costs exceed their benefits. In Rethinking America’s Highways, Poole examines how our current model of state-owned highways came about and why it is failing to satisfy its customers. He argues for a new model that treats highways themselves as public utilities—like electricity, telephones, and water supply. If highways were provided commercially, Poole argues, people would pay for highways based on how much they used, and the companies would issue revenue bonds to invest in facilities people were willing to pay for. Arguing for highway investments to be motivated by economic rather than political factors, this book makes a carefully-reasoned and well-documented case for a new approach to highways.
Book Synopsis Changing Lanes by : Joseph F.C. Dimento
Download or read book Changing Lanes written by Joseph F.C. Dimento and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2014-08-29 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the evolution of the urban freeway, the competing visions that informed it, and the emerging alternatives for more sustainable urban transportation. Urban freeways often cut through the heart of a city, destroying neighborhoods, displacing residents, and reconfiguring street maps. These massive infrastructure projects, costing billions of dollars in transportation funds, have been shaped for the last half century by the ideas of highway engineers, urban planners, landscape architects, and architects—with highway engineers playing the leading role. In Changing Lanes, Joseph DiMento and Cliff Ellis describe the evolution of the urban freeway in the United States, from its rural parkway precursors through the construction of the interstate highway system to emerging alternatives for more sustainable urban transportation. DiMento and Ellis describe controversies that arose over urban freeway construction, focusing on three cases: Syracuse, which early on embraced freeways through its center; Los Angeles, which rejected some routes and then built I-105, the most expensive urban road of its time; and Memphis, which blocked the construction of I-40 through its core. Finally, they consider the emerging urban highway removal movement and other innovative efforts by cities to re-envision urban transportation.
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Roads Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :456 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (126 download)
Book Synopsis Urban Highways: May 1, 6, 7, 8, 27, and 28, 1968 by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Roads
Download or read book Urban Highways: May 1, 6, 7, 8, 27, and 28, 1968 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Roads and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers the effects of urban highway systems on the total environment of the areas they serve.
Book Synopsis The Freeway in the City: Principles of Planning and Design by : Urban Advisors to the Federal Highway Administrator (U.S.)
Download or read book The Freeway in the City: Principles of Planning and Design written by Urban Advisors to the Federal Highway Administrator (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Justice and the Interstates by : Ryan Reft
Download or read book Justice and the Interstates written by Ryan Reft and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2023-01-31 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Justice and the Interstates, edited by Ryan Reft, Amanda Phillips de Lucas, and Rebecca Retzlaff, examines the toll that the construction of the U.S. Interstate Highway System has taken on vulnerable communities over the past seven decades, details efforts to restore the same, often segregated communities, and makes recommendations for moving forward. Justice and the Interstates provides community advocates, transportation planners, engineers, historians, and policymakers with a concise but in-depth examination of the damages wrought by highway construction on the nation's communities of color--from West Baltimore to Birmingham to the San Gabriel Valley. The authors provide a way forward to both address this history and reconcile it with current practices.
Book Synopsis Roads and Traffic in Urban Areas by : Institution of Highways and Transportation (Great Britain)
Download or read book Roads and Traffic in Urban Areas written by Institution of Highways and Transportation (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Urban Highways in Perspective by : Automotive Safety Foundation
Download or read book Urban Highways in Perspective written by Automotive Safety Foundation and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Roads Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages : pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (68 download)
Book Synopsis Urban Highways by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Roads
Download or read book Urban Highways written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Roads and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers the effects of urban highway systems on the total environment of the areas they serve
Book Synopsis The Drive for Dollars by : Jeffrey R. Brown
Download or read book The Drive for Dollars written by Jeffrey R. Brown and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the interplay between finance, freeways, and urban form in the 20th century and their enduring impact on American cities and neighborhoods in the 21st.American cities are distinct from almost all others in the degree to which freeways and freeway travel dominate urban landscapes. In The Drive for Dollars, Jeffrey R. Brown, Eric A. Morris, and Brian D. Taylor tell the largely misunderstood story of how freeways became the centerpiece of U.S. urbantransportation systems, and the crucial, though usually overlooked, role of fiscal politics in bringing freeways about. The authors chronicle how the ways that we both raise and spend transportation revenue have shaped our transportation system and the lives of those who use it, from the era beforethe automobile to the present day. They focus on how the development of one revolutionary type of road--the freeway--was inextricably intertwined with money. With the nation's transportation finance system at a crossroads today, this book sheds light on how we can best fund and plan transportationin the future. The authors draw on these lessons to offer ways forward to pay for transportation more equitably, provide travelers with better mobility, and increase environmental sustainability and urban livability.
Book Synopsis Twentieth-Century Sprawl by : Owen D. Gutfreund
Download or read book Twentieth-Century Sprawl written by Owen D. Gutfreund and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-05-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, Owen Gutfreund offers a fascinating look at how highways have dramatically transformed American communities nationwide, aiding growth and development in unsettled areas and undermining existing urban centers. Gutfreund uses a "follow the money" approach, showing how government policies subsidized suburban development and fueled a chronic nationwide dependence on cars and roadbuilding, with little regard for expense, efficiency, ecological damage, or social equity. The consequence was a combination of unstoppable suburban sprawl, along with ballooning municipal debt burdens, deteriorating center cities, and profound changes in American society and culture. Gutfreund tells the story via case studies of three communities--Denver, Colorado; Middlebury, Vermont; and Smyrna, Tennessee. Different as these places are, they all show the ways that government-sponsored highway development radically transformed America's cities and towns. Based on original research and vividly written, Twentieth-Century Sprawl brings to light the benefits and consequences of the spread of American highways and makes a major contribution to our understanding of issues that still plague our cities and suburbs today.
Download or read book Urban Highways written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
