Divided Highways - 9780801478222

Divided HighwaysBuilding the Interstate Highways, Transforming American Life\nAuthor(s): Tom Lewis\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cornell University Press, United States\nImprint: Cornell University Press\nISBN-13: 9780801478222, 978-0801478222\nSynopsis\n\""Lewis describes in a convincing, lively, and well-documented narrative the evolution of Americas roadway system from one of the worlds worst road networks to its best.\""-John Pucher, Journal of the American Planning Association\n\n In Divided Highways, Tom Lewis offers an encompassing account of highway development in the United States. In the early twentieth century Congress created the Bureau of Public Roads to improve roads and the lives of rural Americans. The Bureau was the forerunner of the Interstate Highway System of 1956, which promoted a technocratic approach to modern road building sometimes at the expense of individual lives, regional characteristics, and the landscape. With thoughtful analysis and engaging prose Lewis]