9780197601518-0197601510-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

ISBN-13: 9780197601518
ISBN-10: 0197601510
Author: Brian D. Taylor, Jeffrey R. Brown, Eric A. Morris
Publication date: 2023
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover 380 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780197601518
ISBN-10: 0197601510
Author: Brian D. Taylor, Jeffrey R. Brown, Eric A. Morris
Publication date: 2023
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover 380 pages

Summary

The Drive for Dollars: How Fiscal Politics Shaped Urban Freeways and Transformed American Cities (ISBN-13: 9780197601518 and ISBN-10: 0197601510), written by authors Brian D. Taylor, Jeffrey R. Brown, Eric A. Morris, was published by Oxford University Press in 2023. With an overall rating of 3.5 stars, it's a notable title among other Transportation (Industries, Transportation, Urban Planning & Development, Social Sciences) books. You can easily purchase or rent The Drive for Dollars: How Fiscal Politics Shaped Urban Freeways and Transformed American Cities (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Transportation books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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The story of the interplay between finance, freeways, and urban form in the 20th century and their enduring impact on American cities and neighborhoods in the 21st.

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 U.S. 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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