Changing Lanes
Visions and Histories of Urban Freeways
$70.86
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
29 August 2014
Summary
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 archite…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262526777 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262526778 |
| Author: | Cliff Ellis, Joseph F.C. DiMento |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 29 August 2014 |
| Weight: | 492g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 17mm |
| Series: | Urban and Industrial Environments |
About The Author
Cliff Ellis
Joseph F. C. DiMento is Professor in the School of Law and former Director of the Newkirk Center for Science and Society at the University of California, Irvine. He is coeditor of Climate Change- What It Means for Us, Our Children, and Our Grandchildren (MIT Press).Cliff Ellis is Associate Professor in the Graduate Program in City and Regional Planning at Clemson University.
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