Author: Harland Bartholomew & AssociatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Express highways
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
A Report on Freeways and Major Streets in Eden Township, Alameda County
Author: Harland Bartholomew & AssociatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Express highways
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
A Bibliography of Highway Planning Reports
Author: United States. Bureau of Public Roads. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Highway planning
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
A Bibliography of Highway Planning Reports Compiled
Author: United States. Bureau of Public Roads. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Highways and Agricultural Engineering, Current Literature
Author: A Proposed Plan for a System of Major Traffic Highways, Oakland, California, 1927
Author: Harland Bartholomew & AssociatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Hella Town
Author: Mitchell SchwarzerPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520391535
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Hella Town reveals the profound impact of transportation improvements, systemic racism, and regional competition on Oakland’s built environment. Often overshadowed by San Francisco, its larger and more glamorous twin, Oakland has a fascinating history of its own. From serving as a major transportation hub to forging a dynamic manufacturing sector, by the mid-twentieth century Oakland had become the urban center of the East Bay. Hella Town focuses on how political deals, economic schemes, and technological innovations fueled this emergence but also seeded the city’s postwar struggles. Toward the turn of the millennium, as immigration from Latin America and East Asia increased, Oakland became one of the most diverse cities in the country. The city still grapples with the consequences of uneven class- and race-based development-amid-disruption. How do past decisions about where to locate highways or public transit, urban renewal districts or civic venues, parks or shopping centers, influence how Oaklanders live today? A history of Oakland’s buildings and landscapes, its booms and its busts, provides insight into its current conditions: an influx of new residents and businesses, skyrocketing housing costs, and a lingering chasm between the haves and have-nots.
Planning, Current Literature
Author: Changing Lanes
Author: Joseph F.C. DimentoPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262526778
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
The story of the evolution of the urban freeway, the competing visions that informed it, and the emerging alternatives for more sustainable urban transportation. Urban freeways often cut through the heart of a city, destroying neighborhoods, displacing residents, and reconfiguring street maps. These massive infrastructure projects, costing billions of dollars in transportation funds, have been shaped for the last half century by the ideas of highway engineers, urban planners, landscape architects, and architects—with highway engineers playing the leading role. In Changing Lanes, Joseph DiMento and Cliff Ellis describe the evolution of the urban freeway in the United States, from its rural parkway precursors through the construction of the interstate highway system to emerging alternatives for more sustainable urban transportation. DiMento and Ellis describe controversies that arose over urban freeway construction, focusing on three cases: Syracuse, which early on embraced freeways through its center; Los Angeles, which rejected some routes and then built I-105, the most expensive urban road of its time; and Memphis, which blocked the construction of I-40 through its core. Finally, they consider the emerging urban highway removal movement and other innovative efforts by cities to re-envision urban transportation.
Redundancy in Public Transit: The political economy of transit in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-1963
Author: The Making of a Multicentered Metropolis
Author: Joseph Anthony RodriguezPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description