Interstate : highway politics and policy since 1939 / Mark H. Rose and Raymond A. Mohl.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rose, Mark H., 1942-

Contributor:

Mohl, Raymond A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Express highways--Government policy--United States--History.

Express highways.

Express highways--United States--History.

Transportation and state--United States--History.

Transportation and state.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (307 p.)

Edition:

3rd ed.

Place of Publication:

Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 Administratio

Contents:

Contents; Preface to the Third Edition; Preface to the Second Edition; Preface to the First Edition; Chapter 1: Rebuilding America: Express Highways and Visions of Reform, 1890-1941; Chapter 2: Planning for Postwar America, 1941-1944; Chapter 3: The Politics of Highway Finance, 1945-1950; Chapter 4: Project Adequate Roads: Traffic Jams, Business, and Government, 1951-1954; Chapter 5: The Highway and the City, 1945-1955; Chapter 6: Dwight D. Eisenhower and Express Highway Politics, 1954-1955; Chapter 7: The Interstate Highway Act of 1956; Chapter 8: The Interstates and the Cities

Chapter 9: Stop the Road: Freeway Revolts in American CitiesChapter 10: The U.S. Department of Transportation and the Freeway Revolt; Chapter 11: ISTEA and the Reframing of American Highway Politics, 1956-1995; Chapter 12: The Freeway Teardown Movement in American Cities; Notes; Index

Notes:

"Originally published in 1979 by the University Press of Kansas"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-266) and index.

ISBN:

9781283864794

1283864797

9781572337831

1572337834

OCLC:

824850242