Author: Bernard G. BrownPublisher:
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Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
A Case Study of Urban Expansion and Annexation, Harris County, Texas
Author: Bernard G. BrownPublisher:
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Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
List of Available Publications of the United States Department of Agriculture
Author: United States. Department of AgriculturePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
List of available publications of the United States Department of Agriculture
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
List of Available Publications of the United States Dept. of Agriculture
Author: United States. Dept. of AgriculturePublisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
List of Available Publications of the United States Department of Agriculture
Author: United States. Dept. of AgriculturePublisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Power Moves
Author: Kyle SheltonPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477314679
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Since World War II, Houston has become a burgeoning, internationally connected metropolis—and a sprawling, car-dependent city. In 1950, it possessed only one highway, the Gulf Freeway, which ran between Houston and Galveston. Today, Houston and Harris County have more than 1,200 miles of highways, and a third major loop is under construction nearly thirty miles out from the historic core. Highways have driven every aspect of Houston’s postwar development, from the physical layout of the city to the political process that has transformed both the transportation network and the balance of power between governing elites and ordinary citizens. Power Moves examines debates around the planning, construction, and use of highway and public transportation systems in Houston. Kyle Shelton shows how Houstonians helped shape the city’s growth by attending city council meetings, writing letters to the highway commission, and protesting the destruction of homes to make way for freeways, which happened in both affluent and low-income neighborhoods. He demonstrates that these assertions of what he terms “infrastructural citizenship” opened up the transportation decision-making process to meaningful input from the public and gave many previously marginalized citizens a more powerful voice in civic affairs. Power Moves also reveals the long-lasting results of choosing highway and auto-based infrastructure over other transit options and the resulting challenges that Houstonians currently face as they grapple with how best to move forward from the consequences and opportunities created by past choices.
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