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The Drive for Dollars: How Fiscal Politics Shaped Urban Freeways and Transformed American Cities

The Drive for Dollars: How Fiscal Politics Shaped Urban Freeways and Transformed American Cities

Taylor, Brian D.
Brown, Jeffrey R.
Morris, Eric A.

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Business GeneralTransportation GeneralUnited States Politics

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ISBN13: 9798212619714
Publisher: Kalorama
Published: Apr 25 2023
Language: English
The story of the interplay between finance, freeways, and urban form in the twentieth century and their enduring impact on American cities and neighborhoods in the twenty-first.



American cities are distinct from almost all others in the degree to which freeways and freeway travel dominate urban landscapes. In The Drive for Dollars, Brian D. Taylor, Eric A. Morris, and Jeffrey R. Brown tell the largely misunderstood story of how freeways became the centerpiece of US urban transportation systems, and the crucial, though usually overlooked, role of fiscal politics in bringing freeways about. The authors chronicle how the ways that we both raise and spend transportation revenue have shaped our transportation system and the lives of those who use it, from the era before the automobile to the present day. They focus on how the development of one revolutionary type of road--the freeway--was inextricably intertwined with money. With the nation's transportation finance system at a crossroads today, this book sheds light on how we can best fund and plan transportation in the future. The authors draw on these lessons to offer ways forward to pay for transportation more equitably, provide travelers with better mobility, and increase environmental sustainability and urban livability.

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