As an urban planning geek I really enjoyed this piece. I find the unintended consequences of major public works projects fascinating. The geography of manufacturing today is partly a consequence of the TVA and cheap electricity costs.
Questions: Were there critiques of the interstate highway plan at the time? Are there any good books on this massive public works projects?
The critique at the time mostly focused on the destruction of city neighborhoods. Jane Jacobs was the best known opponent. A good book to start is Tom Lewis, Divided Highways.
My now deceased father. In law for the company clerk in the army between world war two and korea and told us the story of driving from the midwest to the west coast with this company. He and his assistant. We're drive ahead in a Jeep and secure camping rights at local drive in theaters. Although his buddies flipped him the bird as he passed the convoy each day because he and the assistant used to sleep in motels.
Definitely, eisenhower was far thinking with the example in germany, but the downside of the interstates when they became run amuck tearing through urban neighborhoods usually black, black and brown and poor people and splitting cities in half
My own city, which you have been to numerous times Grand Rapids. It's just one such city, where u s one thirty one it cuts right through the heart of the city, separating the west side from the east side like a big moat
"In this landscape the middle class flourished. Families lived in freestanding homes on lots cheap on account of the quantity of land made accessible by the new highways. The homes had yards. The streets were lined with sidewalks the children took to neighborhood schools."
Indeed, this was how most books, films and television programs of the 1950s and 1960s portrayed them, though dissenting figures like novelist John Cheever were also equal to point out the flaws in the model.
As an urban planning geek I really enjoyed this piece. I find the unintended consequences of major public works projects fascinating. The geography of manufacturing today is partly a consequence of the TVA and cheap electricity costs.
Questions: Were there critiques of the interstate highway plan at the time? Are there any good books on this massive public works projects?
The critique at the time mostly focused on the destruction of city neighborhoods. Jane Jacobs was the best known opponent. A good book to start is Tom Lewis, Divided Highways.
My now deceased father. In law for the company clerk in the army between world war two and korea and told us the story of driving from the midwest to the west coast with this company. He and his assistant. We're drive ahead in a Jeep and secure camping rights at local drive in theaters. Although his buddies flipped him the bird as he passed the convoy each day because he and the assistant used to sleep in motels.
Definitely, eisenhower was far thinking with the example in germany, but the downside of the interstates when they became run amuck tearing through urban neighborhoods usually black, black and brown and poor people and splitting cities in half
My own city, which you have been to numerous times Grand Rapids. It's just one such city, where u s one thirty one it cuts right through the heart of the city, separating the west side from the east side like a big moat
"In this landscape the middle class flourished. Families lived in freestanding homes on lots cheap on account of the quantity of land made accessible by the new highways. The homes had yards. The streets were lined with sidewalks the children took to neighborhood schools."
Indeed, this was how most books, films and television programs of the 1950s and 1960s portrayed them, though dissenting figures like novelist John Cheever were also equal to point out the flaws in the model.