Twentieth-Century Sprawl: Highways and the Reshaping of the American Landscape

by Owen D. Gutfreund

Book Overview

Here, Owen Gutfreund offers a fascinating look at how highways have dramatically transformed American communities nationwide, aiding growth and development in unsettled areas and undermining existing urban centers.
Gutfreund uses a "follow the money" approach, showing how government policies subsidized suburban development and fueled a chronic nationwide dependence on cars and roadbuilding, with little regard for expense, efficiency, ecological...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195189078
• ISBN13: 9780195189070
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Wonderful book

This book delivers detailed, thorough insight into how federal and state highway policies affected cities of varied size and circumstance. Its excellent historical background reminds us why twenty-first century cities and their transportation are facing the challenges they are today.