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Flexible Urban Transportation
by Jonathan L Gifford (Author),
Emerald Group Publishing Limited (Publisher)
Product Specifications
Book Description
Flexible Urban Transportation is a sweeping reassessment of American highway and
transit policy. For the last half-century, this policy has been fixated on
planning, designing and constructing the Interstate highway system, and then
coping with the creative destruction it wrought.
Aggressive construction of the Interstate divided and destroyed urban
communities, and sparked a furious backlash, the "Freeway Revolt." The
Interstate also facilitated widespread suburbanization of housing, retail and
employment, which in turn gave rise to the tightly integrated, flexible supply
chains characteristic of modern industry. American society faces a profound
dilemma. The private automobile has never been more popular. The economy depends
on highways. But communities are increasingly
Book Specifications
ISBN-13 9780080440538
Language English
Binding Hard Bound
Publisher Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Publishing Date 2003-05-14
Total Pages 260