The Folklore of the Freeway [[electronic resource] ] : Race and Revolt in the Modernist City
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| Autore: |
Avila Eric <1968->
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| Titolo: |
The Folklore of the Freeway [[electronic resource] ] : Race and Revolt in the Modernist City
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| Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (251 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 303.48320973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Architecture -- Urban planning |
| City planning -- United States | |
| Express highways -- Social aspects -- United States | |
| Express highways - Social aspects - United States | |
| Urban planning - United States | |
| Business & Economics | |
| Transportation Economics | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover; 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; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 Village and New Orleans's French Quarter. This book tells of the other revolt, a movement of creative opposition, commemoration, and preservation staged on behalf of the mostly minority urban neighborhoods that lacked the political and economic power to resist the onslaught of highway construction.</ |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The Folklore of the Freeway |
| ISBN: | 1-4529-4289-7 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910825036303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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A Quadrant Book