The folklore of the freeway : race and revolt in the modernist city

The folklore of the freeway : race and revolt in the modernist city /

"When the interstate highway program connected America's cities, it also divided them, cutting through and destroying countless communities. Affluent and predominantly white residents fought back in a much heralded "freeway revolt," saving such historic neighborhoods as Greenwich...

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Main Author: Avila, Eric, 1968- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2014]
Series:Quadrant book
Subjects:
Express highways > Social aspects > United States.
City planning > United States.
ARCHITECTURE > History > Contemporary (1945- )
ARCHITECTURE > Urban & Land Use Planning.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
City planning.
Express highways > Social aspects.
Interstate highway
Stadtplanung
Protest
United States.
USA.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction: The Invisible Freeway Revolt
  • 1. The Master's Plan: The Rise and Fall of the Modernist City
  • 2. "Nobody But a Bunch of Mothers": Fighting the Highwaymen During Feminism's Second Wave
  • 3. Communities Lost and Found: The Politics of Historical Memory
  • 4. A Matter of Perspective: The Racial Politics of Seeing the Freeway
  • 5. Taking Back the Freeway: Strategies of Adaptation and Improvisation
  • Conclusion: Identity Politics in Post-Interstate America
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index.

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