Power Moves : : Transportation, Politics, and Development in Houston / / Kyle Shelton.
Since World War II, Houston has become a burgeoning, internationally connected metropolis—and a sprawling, car-dependent city. In 1950, it possessed only one highway, the Gulf Freeway, which ran between Houston and Galveston. Today, Houston and Harris County have more than 1,200 miles of highways, a...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Fig. 0.1. Houston Highway and Rail Map with Case Studies Highlighted
- Introduction
- 1 Building a Highway Metropolis: The Origins and Advent of Houston’s Postwar Growth
- 2 Whose Highways? Planning, Politics, and Consequences
- 3 “Only You Can Prevent Another Freeway”: The Harrisburg Freeway and the Struggle to Shape a Neighborhood
- 4 Infrastructural Elections: Transit Referenda in the 1970s
- 5 By Road or by Rail? The 1983 Transit Debate
- 6 The Legacies and Limits of Infrastructural Citizenship
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index