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Category : Highway research
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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Proceedings of the Annual Tennessee Highway Conference
Author: Proceedings of the Annual Tennessee Highway Conference
Author: A Selected List of Books, Theses, and Pamphlets on TVA
Author: Tennessee Valley Authority. LibraryPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 26
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Urban Transportation Research and Planning, Current Literature
Author: Highways, Current Literature
Author: Public Roads BureauPublisher:
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Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 682
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The TVA Program
Author: Tennessee Valley AuthorityPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 74
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Bulletin
Author: Twentieth-Century Sprawl
Author: Owen D. GutfreundPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198032420
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Here, Owen Gutfreund offers a fascinating look at how highways have dramatically transformed American communities nationwide, aiding growth and development in unsettled areas and undermining existing urban centers. Gutfreund uses a "follow the money" approach, showing how government policies subsidized suburban development and fueled a chronic nationwide dependence on cars and roadbuilding, with little regard for expense, efficiency, ecological damage, or social equity. The consequence was a combination of unstoppable suburban sprawl, along with ballooning municipal debt burdens, deteriorating center cities, and profound changes in American society and culture. Gutfreund tells the story via case studies of three communities--Denver, Colorado; Middlebury, Vermont; and Smyrna, Tennessee. Different as these places are, they all show the ways that government-sponsored highway development radically transformed America's cities and towns. Based on original research and vividly written, Twentieth-Century Sprawl brings to light the benefits and consequences of the spread of American highways and makes a major contribution to our understanding of issues that still plague our cities and suburbs today.
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