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Changing Lanes : Visions and Histories of Urban Freeways.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Urban and Industrial Environments SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (380 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262312387
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Changing LanesDDC classification:
  • 388.1220973091732
LOC classification:
  • HE355.3.E94 D56 2013
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Urban Freeways and America's Changing Cities -- 2 The 1930s: Forays into the Urban Realm -- 3 Urban Freeways and National Policy, 1939-1945 -- 4 Postwar Urban Freeways: Scaling Up for a City on Wheels, 1946-1956 -- 5 Changing Visions and Regulations for Highway Planning -- 6 Urban Freeway Tales: Three Cities among Dozens -- 7 Conclusion and Epilogue: Urban Highways and the American City -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Urban and Industrial Environments Series.
Summary: The story of the evolution of the urban freeway, the competing visions that informed it, and the emerging alternatives for more sustainable urban transportation.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Urban Freeways and America's Changing Cities -- 2 The 1930s: Forays into the Urban Realm -- 3 Urban Freeways and National Policy, 1939-1945 -- 4 Postwar Urban Freeways: Scaling Up for a City on Wheels, 1946-1956 -- 5 Changing Visions and Regulations for Highway Planning -- 6 Urban Freeway Tales: Three Cities among Dozens -- 7 Conclusion and Epilogue: Urban Highways and the American City -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Urban and Industrial Environments Series.

The story of the evolution of the urban freeway, the competing visions that informed it, and the emerging alternatives for more sustainable urban transportation.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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