| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (x, 249 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Front Cover; Flexible Urban Transportation; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1. Transportation and the Economic Vitality of Communities; Chapter 2. Order, Efficiency, and the Struggle against Chaos; Chapter 3. The American Highway Program to 1956; Chapter 4. The American Highway Program since 1956; Chapter 5. Transportation Planning Methods; Chapter 6. The Evolution of Transportation Planning; Chapter 7. Challenges to the Neoclassical Economic Paradigm: Complexity, Adaptation, and Flexibility; Chapter 8. The Need for a New Approach. |
| Summary |
Flexible Urban Transportation is a sweeping reassessment of American highway and transit policy. For the last half-century, this policy has been fixated on planning, designing and constructing the Interstate highway system, and then coping with the creative destruction it wrought. Aggressive construction of the Interstate divided and destroyed urban communities, and sparked a furious backlash, the "Freeway Revolt". The Interstate also facilitated widespread suburbanization of housing, retail and employment, which in turn gave rise to the tightly integrated, flexible supply chains cha. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Urban transportation -- United States.
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Urban transportation. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gifford, Jonathan Lewis. Flexible urban transportation. 1st ed. Amsterdam ; New York : Elsevier Science, 2003 0080440533 (DLC) 2003048608 (OCoLC)51840448 |
| ISBN |
0585474672 (electronic book) |
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9780585474670 (electronic book) |
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0080506569 |
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9780080506562 |
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0080440533 (print) |
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9780080440538 (print) |
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