The Road to Inequality : How the Federal Highway Program Polarized America and Undermined Cities Paperback / softback
by Clayton (Stanford University, California) Nall
Paperback / softback
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The Road to Inequality shows how policies that shape geographic space change our politics, focusing on the effects of the largest public works project in American history: the federal highway system.
For decades, federally subsidized highways have selectively facilitated migration into fast-growing suburbs, producing an increasingly non-urban Republican electorate.
This book examines the highway programs' policy origins at the national level and traces how these intersected with local politics and interests to facilitate complex, mutually-reinforcing processes that have shaped America's growing urban-suburban divide and, with it, the politics of metropolitan public investment.
As Americans have become more polarized on urban-suburban lines, attitudes towards transportation policy - a once quintessentially 'local' and non-partisan policy area - are now themselves driven by partisanship, endangering investments in metropolitan programs that provide access to opportunity for millions of Americans.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:186 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:22/03/2018
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- ISBN:9781108405492
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:186 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:22/03/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9781108405492
