1 option
The road to inequality : how the federal highway program polarized America and undermined cities / Clayton Nall, Stanford University.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nall, Clayton, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Transportation and state--United States.
- Transportation and state.
- Suburbs--Political aspects.
- Suburbs.
- Highway planning--Political aspects.
- Highway planning.
- United States.
- Highway planning--Political aspects--United States.
- Political geography.
- Suburbs--Political aspects--United States.
- Election districts--United States.
- Election districts.
- Urban policy--United States.
- Urban policy.
- United States--Politics and government.
- Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 170 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- The Road to Inequality shows how policies that shape geographic space change our politics, focusing on the effects of the largest public works project in American history: the federal highway system. For decades, federally subsidized highways have selectively facilitated migration into fast-growing suburbs, producing an increasingly non-urban Republican electorate. This book examines the highway programs' policy origins at the national level and traces how these intersected with local politics and interests to facilitate complex, mutually-reinforcing processes that have shaped America's growing urban-suburban divide and, with it, the politics of metropolitan public investment. As Americans have become more polarized on urban-suburban lines, attitudes towards transportation policy - a once quintessentially 'local' and non-partisan policy area - are now themselves driven by partisanship, endangering investments in metropolitan programs that provide access to opportunity for millions of Americans. --Amazon
- Contents:
- Introduction
- How highways facilitate partisan geographic sorting
- Highways polarize metropolitan political geography
- Transportation becomes a partisan issue
- Implications for transportation policymaking
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781108417594
- 1108417590
- 9781108405492
- 1108405495
- OCLC:
- 1006517764
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.