Justice and the Interstates : The Racist Truth about Urban Highways.

Front Cover -- About Island Press -- Subscribe -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: How Can a Highway Be Racist? -- Part 1: Mythologies -- Chapter 1: The Myth and the Truth about Interstate Highways -- Chapter 2: The Interstates, Racism, and the Need for Truth and Reconciliation: The Case of Highway Routing in Alabama -- Chapter 3: Overton Park: The Racial and Class Politics of Environmentalism, Historic Preservation, and Highway Construction -- Part 2: Methods -- Chapter 4: Milwaukee's Freeway Fights: Lessons from Building and Rebuilding -- Chapte 5: The Perils of Civic Participation: Community Engagement and Interstate Planning in Baltimore -- Chapter 6: Right in the Way: Generations of Highway Impacts in Houston -- Chapter 7: Latino Interchanges: Greater East Los Angeles in the Freeway Era -- Part 3: Momentum -- Chapter 8: A Contemporary Path to Transportation Justice in Rondo -- Chapter 9: Guerrilla in the Room -- Conclusion: Never Again Is Now: The Transportation Professions' Responsibility to Work Toward Justice -- Notes -- About the Contributors -- Index.

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