Author: Tom Lewis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Relates the history of the conception and building of the Interstate Highway System and its affect on the American lifestyle.
Divided Highways
Author: Tom Lewis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Relates the history of the conception and building of the Interstate Highway System and its affect on the American lifestyle.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Relates the history of the conception and building of the Interstate Highway System and its affect on the American lifestyle.
Toll Roads and Free Roads
Author: United States. Public Roads Administration
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Roundabouts
Author: Lee August Rodegerdts
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISBN: 0309155118
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 672: Roundabouts: An Informational Guide - Second Edition explores the planning, design, construction, maintenance, and operation of roundabouts. The report also addresses issues that may be useful in helping to explain the trade-offs associated with roundabouts. This report updates the U.S. Federal Highway Administration's Roundabouts: An Informational Guide, based on experience gained in the United States since that guide was published in 2000.
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISBN: 0309155118
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 672: Roundabouts: An Informational Guide - Second Edition explores the planning, design, construction, maintenance, and operation of roundabouts. The report also addresses issues that may be useful in helping to explain the trade-offs associated with roundabouts. This report updates the U.S. Federal Highway Administration's Roundabouts: An Informational Guide, based on experience gained in the United States since that guide was published in 2000.
The States and the Interstates
Author: American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials
Publisher: American Association of State Highway & Transportation Officials
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
This report, prepared by the Public Works Historical Society with some minor editing by AASHTO, outlines the origins of the Interstate and Defense Highway System, the early years of its implementation, and the challenges and adjustments required in its completion.
Publisher: American Association of State Highway & Transportation Officials
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
This report, prepared by the Public Works Historical Society with some minor editing by AASHTO, outlines the origins of the Interstate and Defense Highway System, the early years of its implementation, and the challenges and adjustments required in its completion.
The Best Investment a Nation Ever Made
Author: Wendell Cox
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 0788141864
Category : Express highways
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Without a first class system of interstate highways, life in America would be far different -- it would be more risky, less prosperous, & lacking in the efficiency & comfort that Americans now enjoy & take for granted. The Dwight D. Eisenhower System of Interstate & Defense Highways, in place & celebrating its 40th anniversary, must surely be the best investment a nation ever made. Consider this: it has saved the lives of at least 187,000 people; it has prevented injuries to nearly 12 million people; it has returned more that $6 in economic productivity for each $1 it cost, & much more. Photos. Charts & tables.
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 0788141864
Category : Express highways
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Without a first class system of interstate highways, life in America would be far different -- it would be more risky, less prosperous, & lacking in the efficiency & comfort that Americans now enjoy & take for granted. The Dwight D. Eisenhower System of Interstate & Defense Highways, in place & celebrating its 40th anniversary, must surely be the best investment a nation ever made. Consider this: it has saved the lives of at least 187,000 people; it has prevented injuries to nearly 12 million people; it has returned more that $6 in economic productivity for each $1 it cost, & much more. Photos. Charts & tables.
Federal-aid Highway Act of 1962
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Overdrive
Author: Wim de Wit
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606061283
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
The drawings, models, and images highlighted in the Overdrive exhibition and catalogue reveal the complex and often underappreciated facets of Los Angeles and illustrate how the metropolis became an internationally recognized destination with a unique design vocabulary, canonical landmarks, and a coveted lifestyle. This investigation builds upon the groundbreaking work of generations of historians, theorists, curators, critics, and activists who have researched and expounded upon the development of Los Angeles. In this volume, thought-provoking essays shed more light on the exhibition's narratives, including Los Angeles's physical landscape, the rise of modernism, the region's influential residential architecture, its buildings for commerce and transportation, and architects' pioneering uses of bold forms, advanced materials, and new technologies. The related exhibition will be held at the J. Paul Getty Museum from April 9 to July 21, 2013.
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606061283
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
The drawings, models, and images highlighted in the Overdrive exhibition and catalogue reveal the complex and often underappreciated facets of Los Angeles and illustrate how the metropolis became an internationally recognized destination with a unique design vocabulary, canonical landmarks, and a coveted lifestyle. This investigation builds upon the groundbreaking work of generations of historians, theorists, curators, critics, and activists who have researched and expounded upon the development of Los Angeles. In this volume, thought-provoking essays shed more light on the exhibition's narratives, including Los Angeles's physical landscape, the rise of modernism, the region's influential residential architecture, its buildings for commerce and transportation, and architects' pioneering uses of bold forms, advanced materials, and new technologies. The related exhibition will be held at the J. Paul Getty Museum from April 9 to July 21, 2013.
Federal-aid Highway Act of 1954
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
America's Highways, 1776-1976
Author: United States. Federal Highway Administration
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Federal aid to transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Federal aid to transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Interstate
Author: Mark H. Rose
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 1572337834
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
This new, expanded edition brings the story of the Interstates into the twenty-first century. It includes an account of the destruction of homes, businesses, and communities as the urban expressways of the highway network destroyed large portions of the nation’s central cities. Mohl and Rose analyze the subsequent urban freeway revolts, when citizen protest groups battled highway builders in San Francisco, Baltimore, Memphis, New Orleans, Washington, DC, and other cities. Their detailed research in the archival records of the Bureau of Public Roads, the Federal Highway Administration, and the U.S. Department of Transportation brings to light significant evidence of federal action to tame the spreading freeway revolts, curb the authority of state highway engineers, and promote the devolution of transportation decision making to the state and regional level. They analyze the passage of congressional legislation in the 1990s, especially the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA), that initiated a major shift of Highway Trust Fund dollars to mass transit and light rail, as well as to hiking trails and bike lanes. Mohl and Rose conclude with the surprising popularity of the recent freeway teardown movement, an effort to replace deteriorating, environmentally damaging, and sometimes dangerous elevated expressway segments through the inner cities. Sometimes led by former anti-highway activists of the 1960s and 1970s, teardown movements aim to restore the urban street grid, provide space for new streetcar lines, and promote urban revitalization efforts. This revised edition continues to be marked by accessible writing and solid research by two well-known scholars.
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 1572337834
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
This new, expanded edition brings the story of the Interstates into the twenty-first century. It includes an account of the destruction of homes, businesses, and communities as the urban expressways of the highway network destroyed large portions of the nation’s central cities. Mohl and Rose analyze the subsequent urban freeway revolts, when citizen protest groups battled highway builders in San Francisco, Baltimore, Memphis, New Orleans, Washington, DC, and other cities. Their detailed research in the archival records of the Bureau of Public Roads, the Federal Highway Administration, and the U.S. Department of Transportation brings to light significant evidence of federal action to tame the spreading freeway revolts, curb the authority of state highway engineers, and promote the devolution of transportation decision making to the state and regional level. They analyze the passage of congressional legislation in the 1990s, especially the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA), that initiated a major shift of Highway Trust Fund dollars to mass transit and light rail, as well as to hiking trails and bike lanes. Mohl and Rose conclude with the surprising popularity of the recent freeway teardown movement, an effort to replace deteriorating, environmentally damaging, and sometimes dangerous elevated expressway segments through the inner cities. Sometimes led by former anti-highway activists of the 1960s and 1970s, teardown movements aim to restore the urban street grid, provide space for new streetcar lines, and promote urban revitalization efforts. This revised edition continues to be marked by accessible writing and solid research by two well-known scholars.