Divided Highways: Building the Interstate Highways, Transforming American Life by Tom Lewis

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  • Divided Highways: Building the Interstate Highways, Transforming American Life
  • Tom Lewis
  • Page: 387
  • Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
  • ISBN: 9780801478222
  • Publisher: Cornell University Press

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In Divided Highways, Tom Lewis offers an encompassing account of highway development in the United States. In the early twentieth century Congress created the Bureau of Public Roads to improve roads and the lives of rural Americans. The Bureau was the forerunner of the Interstate Highway System of 1956, which promoted a technocratic approach to modern road building sometimes at the expense of individual lives, regional characteristics, and the landscape. With thoughtful analysis and engaging prose Lewis charts ...



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