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Flexible Urban Transportation (Hardcover, New)
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Flexible Urban Transportation (Hardcover, New)
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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 characteristic of modern
industry. American society faces a profound dilemma. The private
automobile has never been more popular. The economy depends on
highways. But communities are increasingly unwilling to build or
expand them.
Making transportation choices with a clear understanding of their
consequences - protecting communities, fostering environmental
stewardship, and supporting a dynamic and productive economy - is
an urgent matter. But the regulations and procedures that govern
those choices are severely outdated. And the interests vested in
the current stalemate block the way towards serious reform.
This cogent evaluation of how American transportation planning got
to where it is today, and its proposal for an adaptive
transportation decision-making process, is required reading for
those concerned about the problems and prospects of transportation
today.
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