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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 826
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Housing and Planning References
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 826
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Pages : 826
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Power Moves
Author: Kyle Shelton
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477314679
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
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Since World War II, Houston has become a burgeoning, internationally connected metropolis—and a sprawling, car-dependent city. In 1950, it possessed only one highway, the Gulf Freeway, which ran between Houston and Galveston. Today, Houston and Harris County have more than 1,200 miles of highways, and a third major loop is under construction nearly thirty miles out from the historic core. Highways have driven every aspect of Houston’s postwar development, from the physical layout of the city to the political process that has transformed both the transportation network and the balance of power between governing elites and ordinary citizens. Power Moves examines debates around the planning, construction, and use of highway and public transportation systems in Houston. Kyle Shelton shows how Houstonians helped shape the city’s growth by attending city council meetings, writing letters to the highway commission, and protesting the destruction of homes to make way for freeways, which happened in both affluent and low-income neighborhoods. He demonstrates that these assertions of what he terms “infrastructural citizenship” opened up the transportation decision-making process to meaningful input from the public and gave many previously marginalized citizens a more powerful voice in civic affairs. Power Moves also reveals the long-lasting results of choosing highway and auto-based infrastructure over other transit options and the resulting challenges that Houstonians currently face as they grapple with how best to move forward from the consequences and opportunities created by past choices.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477314679
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
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Since World War II, Houston has become a burgeoning, internationally connected metropolis—and a sprawling, car-dependent city. In 1950, it possessed only one highway, the Gulf Freeway, which ran between Houston and Galveston. Today, Houston and Harris County have more than 1,200 miles of highways, and a third major loop is under construction nearly thirty miles out from the historic core. Highways have driven every aspect of Houston’s postwar development, from the physical layout of the city to the political process that has transformed both the transportation network and the balance of power between governing elites and ordinary citizens. Power Moves examines debates around the planning, construction, and use of highway and public transportation systems in Houston. Kyle Shelton shows how Houstonians helped shape the city’s growth by attending city council meetings, writing letters to the highway commission, and protesting the destruction of homes to make way for freeways, which happened in both affluent and low-income neighborhoods. He demonstrates that these assertions of what he terms “infrastructural citizenship” opened up the transportation decision-making process to meaningful input from the public and gave many previously marginalized citizens a more powerful voice in civic affairs. Power Moves also reveals the long-lasting results of choosing highway and auto-based infrastructure over other transit options and the resulting challenges that Houstonians currently face as they grapple with how best to move forward from the consequences and opportunities created by past choices.
Houston Easthaven Wastewater Facility
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Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Housing and Planning References
Author: United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Library
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
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Public Housing Needs and Conditions in Houston
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Housing and Community Development
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Category : Federal aid to community development
Languages : en
Pages : 766
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Category : Federal aid to community development
Languages : en
Pages : 766
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Houston Wastewater Facilities
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Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Government Reports Annual Index
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Category : Government reports announcements & index
Languages : en
Pages : 892
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Category : Government reports announcements & index
Languages : en
Pages : 892
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University Corridor Fixed Guideway in Houston, Harris County
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Languages : en
Pages : 508
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Pages : 508
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Houston Northwest Sewage Facility
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Languages : en
Pages : 378
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Languages : en
Pages : 378
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Bureau of the Census Catalog
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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