03428nam 22005533 450 991086087280332120240416205054.01-64283-262-6(MiAaPQ)EBC30450866(Au-PeEL)EBL30450866(OCoLC)1373984824(CKB)26304923200041(EXLCZ)992630492320004120230324d2023 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierJustice and the Interstates The Racist Truth about Urban Highways1st ed.Washington, D. C. :Island Press,2023.©2022.1 online resource (256 pages)Print version: Reft, Ryan Justice and the Interstates Washington, D. C. : Island Press,c2023 9781642832617 Front Cover -- About Island Press -- Subscribe -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: How Can a Highway Be Racist? -- Part 1: Mythologies -- Chapter 1: The Myth and the Truth about Interstate Highways -- Chapter 2: The Interstates, Racism, and the Need for Truth and Reconciliation: The Case of Highway Routing in Alabama -- Chapter 3: Overton Park: The Racial and Class Politics of Environmentalism, Historic Preservation, and Highway Construction -- Part 2: Methods -- Chapter 4: Milwaukee's Freeway Fights: Lessons from Building and Rebuilding -- Chapte 5: The Perils of Civic Participation: Community Engagement and Interstate Planning in Baltimore -- Chapter 6: Right in the Way: Generations of Highway Impacts in Houston -- Chapter 7: Latino Interchanges: Greater East Los Angeles in the Freeway Era -- Part 3: Momentum -- Chapter 8: A Contemporary Path to Transportation Justice in Rondo -- Chapter 9: Guerrilla in the Room -- Conclusion: Never Again Is Now: The Transportation Professions' Responsibility to Work Toward Justice -- Notes -- About the Contributors -- Index.Justice and the Interstates examines the toll that the construction of the U.S. Interstate Highway System has taken on vulnerable communities over the past seven decades, details efforts to restore these often- segregated communities, and makes recommendations for moving forward. It opens up new areas for historical inquiry, while also calling on engineers, urban planners, transportation professionals, and policymakers to account for the legacies of their practices.Express highwaysSocial aspectsUnited StatesRoadsDesign and constructionSocial aspectsUnited StatesCity planningUnited StatesCity planningfast(OCoLC)fst00862177Express highwaysSocial aspectsfast(OCoLC)fst00918861United StatesfastExpress highwaysSocial aspectsRoadsDesign and constructionSocial aspectsCity planningCity planning.Express highwaysSocial aspects.303.48320973Reft Ryan1740798Phillips de Lucas Amanda1740799Retzlaff Rebecca1740800MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910860872803321Justice and the Interstates4166633UNINA