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Justice and the Interstates : the racist truth about urban highways /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Other Authors: Reft, Ryan (Editor), Phillips de Lucas, Amanda K. (Editor), Retzlaff, Rebecca (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington : Island Press, [2023]
Subjects:
Express highways > Social aspects > United States.
Roads > Design and construction > Social aspects > United States.
City planning > United States.
City planning.
Express highways > Social aspects.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: How Can a Highway be Racist?
  • Part 1: Mythologies
  • The Myth and the Truth about Interstate Highways / Sarah Jo Peterson
  • The Interstates, Racism, and the Need for Truth and Reconciliation: The Case of Highway Routing in Alabama / Rebecca Retzlaff and Jocelyn Zanzot
  • Overton Park: The Race and Class Politics of Environmentalism, Historic Preservation, and Highway Construction / Ryan Reft
  • Part 2: Methods
  • Milwaukee's Freeway Fights: Lessons from Building and Rebuilding / Ruben L. Anthony Jr. and Joseph Rodriguez
  • The Perils of Civic Participation: Community Engagement and Interstate Planning in Baltimore / Amanda Phillips de Lucas
  • Right in the Way: Generations of Highway Impacts in Houston / Kyle Shelton
  • Latino Interchanges: Greater East Los Angeles in the Freeway Era / Gilbert Estrada and Jerry GonzĚ€lez
  • Part 3: Momentum
  • A Contemporary Path to Transportation Justice in Rondo / Tierra Bills
  • Guerrilla in the Room / Amy Stelly
  • Conclusion: Never Again Is Now: The Transportation Professions' Responsibility to Work Toward Justice / Steven Higashide