Changing Lanes: Visions and Histories of Urban Freeways

by Cliff Ellis and Joseph F.C. DiMento

Book Overview

The story of the evolution of the urban freeway, the competing visions that informed it, and the emerging alternatives for more sustainable urban transportation.

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262526778
• ISBN13: 9780262526777
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher