The Drive for Dollars: How Fiscal Politics Shaped Urban Freeways and Transformed American Cities – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780197601549,0197601545

Product details:

• ISBN-10: 0197601545
• ISBN-13: 9780197601549
• Author: Jeffrey R. Brown, Eric A. Morris, Brian D. Taylor

American cities are distinct from almost all others in the degree to which freeways and freeway travel dominate urban landscapes. In The Drive for Dollars, Jeffrey R. Brown, Eric A. Morris, and Brian D. Taylor tell the largely misunderstood story of how freeways became the centerpiece of U.S. urban transportation systems, and the crucial, though usually overlooked, role of fiscal politics in bringing freeways about. The authors chronicle how the ways that we both raise and spend transportation revenue have shaped our transportation system and the lives of those who use it, from the era before the automobile to the present day. They focus on how the development of one revolutionary type of road–the freeway–was inextricably intertwined with money. With the nation’s transportation finance system at a crossroads today, this book sheds light on how we can best fund and plan transportation in the future. The authors draw on these lessons to offer ways forward to pay for transportation more equitably, provide travelers with better mobility, and increase environmental sustainability and urban livability.

Table contents:

Part I. Overview and Introduction

1. Cities, Cars, and Freeways

2. Urban and Rural Road Planning and Finance before the Automobile

Part II. Planning and Financing Roads for Autos before Freeways

3. Planning and Paying for Streets in Cities in the Pre-Freeway Automobile Era

4. Planning and Paying for Highways between Cities in the Pre-Freeway Era

Part III. Planning and Finance in the Early Freeway Era

5. Planning Highways in Cities in the Pre-Interstate Era

6. Planning and Financing Highways between Cities in the Pre-Interstate Era

7. Financing Freeways in the Postwar Era

Part IV. The Freeway Era and Its Enduring Legacy

8. The Rise of the Freeway Era

9. The Fall of the Freeway Era

10. Turning Back the Clock: Finance and Planning in the Post-Freeway Era

11. Conclusion: Groping for a Post-Freeway Consensus

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