Changing Lanes Visions and Histories of Urban Freeways 1st Edition by Joseph F C Dimento, Cliff Ellis ISBN 0262018586 9780262018586

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ISBN 10: 0262018586 
ISBN 13: 9780262018586
Author: Joseph F C Dimento, Cliff Ellis

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 architects, and architects — with highway engineers playing the leading role. In Changing Lanes, Joseph DiMento and Cliff Ellis describe the evolution of the urban freeway in the United States, from its rural parkway precursors through the construction of the interstate highway system to emerging alternatives for more sustainable urban transportation.

DiMento and Ellis describe controversies that arose over urban freeway construction, focusing on three cases: Syracuse, which early on embraced freeways through its center; Los Angeles, which rejected some routes and then built I-105, the most expensive urban road of its time; and Memphis, which blocked the construction of I-40 through its core. Finally, they consider the emerging urban highway removal movement and other innovative efforts by cities to re-envision urban transportation.

Changing Lanes Visions and Histories of Urban Freeways 1st Table of contents:

• Urban Freeways and America’s Changing Cities (Introduction, setting the stage for the book’s themes)

• The 1930s: Forays into the Urban Realm (Discusses early concepts of freeways, often as rural parkways, and their initial extension into urban areas)

• Urban Freeways and National Policy, 1939–1945 (Examines the influence of national policy and federal studies, particularly during WWII, that shifted the focus towards beltways and radial networks, laying the groundwork for the interstate highway system)

• Postwar Urban Freeways: Scaling Up for a City on Wheels, 1946–1956 (Covers the immediate post-war period, the rise of the automobile, and the increasing scale of urban freeway projects leading up to the Interstate Highway Act)

• Changing Visions and Regulations for Highway Planning (Explores how planning perspectives and regulations evolved, including the emergence of resistance to freeway construction)

• Urban Freeway Tales: Three Cities among Dozens (Detailed case studies of urban freeway controversies in:

  • Syracuse (which early on embraced freeways through its center)
  • Los Angeles (which rejected some routes but then built I-105, one of the most expensive urban roads)
  • Memphis (which successfully blocked a proposed freeway through Overton Park)
  • (This chapter also likely includes briefer accounts of freeway revolts in other cities like Baltimore, Boston, Miami, New Orleans, New York City, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, D.C.)

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