Author: United States. Congress. House. Public WorksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 222
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: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on RoadsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Express highways
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Author: United States. Superintendent of DocumentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1012
Book Description
Alaska Highway, Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Roads ... 90-1, on S. 2021, a Bill to Authorize the Appropriation of Funds for the Construction, Reconstruction, and Improvement of the Alaska Highway, September 14, 1967
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public WorksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
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.
Highway Beautification and Highway Safety Programs, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Roads ... 90-1, on S. 1467, June 28-29; July 18-20, 1967
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public WorksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Dictionary Catalog of the Departmental Library
Author: United States. Department of the Interior. Office of Library ServicesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conservation of natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
Dictionary Catalog of the Department Library
Author: United States. Department of the Interior. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 794
Book Description
Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Public Buildings and Grounds of the Committee on Public Works, House of Representatives ...
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public WorksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public works
Languages : en
Pages : 1244
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 : 248
Book Description