Urban Highways

Author : Karilyn Crockett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781625342966
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book People Before Highways written by Karilyn Crockett and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction -- People before highways: stopping highways, building a regional social movement -- Battling desires: (re)defining progress -- Groundwork: imagining a highwayless future -- Planning for tomorrow not yesterday: "we were wrong"--New territory--city-making, searching for control -- Making victory stick: new dreams, new plans, new park

Author : Joseph F. DiMento
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262018586
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Changing Lanes written by Joseph F. DiMento and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Robert W. Poole
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022655760X
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking America's Highways written by Robert W. Poole and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-08-03 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A transportation expert makes a provocative case for changing the nation’s approach to highways, offering “bold, innovative thinking on infrastructure” (Rick Geddes, Cornell University). Americans spend hours every day sitting in traffic. And the roads they idle on are often rough and potholed, with exits, tunnels, guardrails, and bridges in terrible disrepair. According to transportation expert Robert Poole, this congestion and deterioration are outcomes of the way America manages its highways. Our twentieth-century model overly politicizes highway investment decisions, short-changing maintenance and often investing in projects whose costs exceed their benefits. In Rethinking America’s Highways, Poole examines how our current model of state-owned highways came about and why it is failing to satisfy its customers. He argues for a new model that treats highways themselves as public utilities—like electricity, telephones, and water supply. If highways were provided commercially, Poole argues, people would pay for highways based on how much they used, and the companies would issue revenue bonds to invest in facilities people were willing to pay for. Arguing for highway investments to be motivated by economic rather than political factors, this book makes a carefully-reasoned and well-documented case for a new approach to highways.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Roads
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urban Highways written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Roads and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers the effects of urban highway systems on the total environment of the areas they serve.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 654 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urban Highways, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Roads ... written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Roads
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urban Highways written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Roads and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Roads
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
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Download or read book Urban Highways: May 1, 6, 7, 8, 27, and 28, 1968 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Roads and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers the effects of urban highway systems on the total environment of the areas they serve.

Author : J. F. McDonald
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9780792386315
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Economics of Urban Highway Congestion and Pricing written by J. F. McDonald and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1999-10-31 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economics of Urban Highway Congestion and Pricing offers the most extensive examination to date of the relationship between congestion tolls and highway capacity in the long run. This study breaks new ground in the economic theory of optimal road capacity by including theoretical contributions, empirical studies, and simulation experiments that all pertain to the general topic reflected in the title. The book is organized into four sections: 1) highway traffic flow; 2) commuter choice of tollways versus freeways; 3) congestion pricing in the short run; and 4) road capacity and pricing in the long run. In particular, the first section on highway traffic flow examines the chief models and empirical studies of vehicular flow on urban highways. The second section of the book is a theoretical and empirical examination of the choice that commuters make between urban tollways and freeways. The third section is devoted to congestion pricing in the short run, the time period in which the urban highway facilities are taken as given. This section is the most important part of the book from the standpoint of public policy. The fourth and last section of the book considers road capacity and pricing in the long run, with the concluding chapter gathering the authors' main results in one place and making recommendations both for current policy and for future research.

Author : Joseph F.C. Dimento
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262526778
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Changing Lanes written by Joseph F.C. Dimento and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2014-08-29 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Urban Advisors to the Federal Highway Administrator (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Freeway in the City: Principles of Planning and Design written by Urban Advisors to the Federal Highway Administrator (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: