People Before Highways - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook People Before Highways write by Karilyn Crockett. This book was released on 2018. People Before Highways available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
Divided Highways
Divided Highways - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Divided Highways write by Tom Lewis. This book was released on 1999. Divided Highways available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Divided Highways, Tom Lewis tells the monumental story of the largest engineered structure ever built: the Interstate Highway System. Here is one of the great untold tales of American enterprise, recounted entirely through the stories of the human beings who thought up, mapped out, poured, paved - and tried to stop - the Interstates. Conceived and spearheaded by Thomas "the Chief" MacDonald, the iron-willed bureaucrat from the muddy farmlands of Iowa who rose to unrivaled power, the highway system was propelled forward through the pathbreaking efforts of brilliant engineers, argued over by politicians of every ideological and moral stripe, reviled by the citizens whose lives it devastated, and lauded as the greatest public works project in U.S. history.
Miles and Miles of Texas
Miles and Miles of Texas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Miles and Miles of Texas write by Carol Dawson. This book was released on 2016-09-23. Miles and Miles of Texas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. On the eve of its centennial, Carol Dawson and Roger Allen Polson present almost 100 years of history and never-before-seen photographs that track the development of the Texas Highway Department. An agency originally created “to get the farmer out of the mud,” it has gone on to build the vast network of roads that now connects every corner of the state. When the Texas Highway Department (now called the Texas Department of Transportation or TxDOT) was created in 1917, there were only about 200,000 cars in Texas traveling on fewer than a thousand miles of paved roads. Today, after 100 years of the Texas Highway Department, the state boasts over 80,000 miles of paved, state-maintained roads that accommodate more than 25 million vehicles. Sure to interest history enthusiasts and casual readers alike, decades of progress and turmoil, development and disaster, and politics and corruption come together once more in these pages, which tell the remarkable story of an infrastructure 100 years in the making.
Chicago's Highways, Old and New
Chicago's Highways, Old and New - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chicago's Highways, Old and New write by Milo Milton Quaife. This book was released on 1923. Chicago's Highways, Old and New available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Big Roads
The Big Roads - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Big Roads write by Earl Swift. This book was released on 2011-06-09. The Big Roads available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Discover the twists and turns of one of America’s great infrastructure projects with this “engrossing history of the creation of the U.S. interstate system” (Los Angeles Times). It’s become a part of the landscape that we take for granted, the site of rumbling eighteen-wheelers and roadside rest stops, a familiar route for commuters and vacationing families. But during the twentieth century, the interstate highway system dramatically changed the face of our nation. These interconnected roads—over 47,000 miles of them—are man-made wonders, economic pipelines, agents of sprawl, uniquely American symbols of escape and freedom, and an unrivaled public works accomplishment. Though officially named after President Dwight D. Eisenhower, this network of roadways has origins that reach all the way back to the World War I era, and The Big Roads—“the first thorough history of the expressway system” (The Washington Post)—tells the full story of how they came to be. From the speed demon who inspired a primitive web of dirt auto trails to the largely forgotten technocrats who planned the system years before Ike reached the White House to the city dwellers who resisted the concrete juggernaut when it bore down on their neighborhoods, this book reveals both the massive scale of this government engineering project, and the individual lives that have been transformed by it. A fast-paced history filled with fascinating detours, “the book is a road geek’s treasure—and everyone who travels the highways ought to know these stories” (Kirkus Reviews).
