Interstate: Highway Politics and Policy since 1939

Contents

vii Contents Preface to the Third Edition ix Preface to the Second Edition xvii Preface to the First Edition xxi Chapter 1: Rebuilding America: Express Highways and Visions of Reform, 1890–1941 1 Chapter 2: Planning for Postwar America, 1941–1944 15 Chapter 3: The Politics of Highway Finance, 1945–1950 29 Chapter 4: Project Adequate Roads: Traffic Jams, Business, and Government, 1951–1954 41 Chapter 5: The Highway and the City, 1945–1955 55 Chapter 6: Dwight D. Eisenhower and Express Highway Politics, 1954–1955 69 Chapter 7: The Interstate Highway Act of 1956 85 Chapter 8: The Interstates and the Cities 95 Chapter 9: Stop the Road: Freeway Revolts in American Cities 113 Chapter 10: The U.S. Department of Transportation and the Freeway Revolt 135 Chapter 11: ISTEA and the Reframing of American Highway Politics, 1956–1995 159 Chapter 12: The Freeway Teardown Movement in American Cities 177 Notes 193 Index 267 This page intentionally left blank ...