Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on RoadsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Express highways
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Major Highway Problems in D.C.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on RoadsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Express highways
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Major Highway Problems in D.C., Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Roads ... 90-1
Author: United States. Congress. House. Public WorksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Major highway problems in D.C.
Author: 1972 Highway Legislation
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on RoadsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Highway law
Languages : en
Pages : 1152
Book Description
1972 Highway Legislation, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Roads ..., 92-2
Author: United States. Congress. House. Public WorksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1076
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A Policy on Design Standards--interstate System
Author: Publisher: Aashto
ISBN:
Category : Express highways
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Lady Bird Johnson and the Environment
Author: Lewis L. GouldPublisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700631518
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
In the 1960s Lady Bird Johnson sought to improve the natural appearance of Washington, D.C., to make the nation’s highways less cluttered with billboards and junkyards, and to advance the environmental agenda of Lyndon Johnson’s presidency. The popular understanding of what she did remains incomplete, and her role as a woman conservationist has not been well understood. In this, the first book to example her accomplishments as First Lady, Lewis Gould shows Lady Bird Johnson as a catalyst for environmental ideas and as a powerful and persuasive force within her husband’s administration. Although passage of the Highway Beautification Act in 1965 was the legislative apex of her efforts, Lady Bird Johnson also articulated a wide range of conservation issues, framing policy initiatives and focusing public opinion. She instilled conservation and ecological ideas in the national mind, Gould argues, with a skill and adroitness that puts Mrs. Johnson in the front rank among modern First Ladies. Indeed, in his view, only Eleanor Roosevelt surpasses her in importance. This book is the result of Gould’s extensive research in the LBJ Library and draws on his interviews with such key figures as Interior Secretary Steward Udall, Press Secretary Liz Carpenter, District of Columbia Mayor Walter Washington, and Lady Bird Johnson herself.
The Great Society Subway
Author: Zachary M. SchragPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421415771
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
As Metro stretches to Tysons Corner and beyond, this paperback edition features a new preface from the author. Drivers in the nation's capital face a host of hazards: high-speed traffic circles, presidential motorcades, jaywalking tourists, and bewildering signs that send unsuspecting motorists from the Lincoln Memorial into suburban Virginia in less than two minutes. And parking? Don't bet on it unless you're in the fast lane of the Capital Beltway during rush hour. Little wonder, then, that so many residents and visitors rely on the Washington Metro, the 106-mile rapid transit system that serves the District of Columbia and its inner suburbs. In the first comprehensive history of the Metro, Zachary M. Schrag tells the story of the Great Society Subway from its earliest rumblings to the present day, from Arlington to College Park, Eisenhower to Marion Barry. Unlike the pre–World War II rail systems of New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia, the Metro was built at a time when most American families already owned cars, and when most American cities had dedicated themselves to freeways, not subways. Why did the nation's capital take a different path? What were the consequences of that decision? Using extensive archival research as well as oral history, Schrag argues that the Metro can be understood only in the political context from which it was born: the Great Society liberalism of the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations. The Metro emerged from a period when Americans believed in public investments suited to the grandeur and dignity of the world's richest nation. The Metro was built not merely to move commuters, but in the words of Lyndon Johnson, to create "a place where the city of man serves not only the needs of the body and the demands of commerce but the desire for beauty and the hunger for community." Schrag scrutinizes the project from its earliest days, including general planning, routes, station architecture, funding decisions, land-use impacts, and the behavior of Metro riders. The story of the Great Society Subway sheds light on the development of metropolitan Washington, postwar urban policy, and the promises and limits of rail transit in American cities.
Budget Requirements of D.C.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the District of ColumbiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Budget
Languages : en
Pages : 1116
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Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. HousePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 984
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