The folklore of the freeway
Avila, Eric, 1968-
The folklore of the freeway race and revolt in the modernist city / [electronic resource] : Eric Avila. - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2014] - 1 online resource (pages cm.) - A quadrant book . - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: The Invisible Freeway Revolt -- 1. The Master's Plan: The Rise and Fall of the Modernist City -- 2. "Nobody But a Bunch of Mothers": Fighting the Highwaymen During Feminism's Second Wave -- 3. Communities Lost and Found: The Politics of Historical Memory -- 4. A Matter of Perspective: The Racial Politics of Seeing the Freeway -- 5. Taking Back the Freeway: Strategies of Adaptation and Improvisation -- Conclusion: Identity Politics in Post-Interstate America -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.
9781452942896 1452942897
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban.
ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning.
ARCHITECTURE / History / Contemporary (1945-).
Urban planning--United States.
Express highways--Social aspects--United States.
Electronic books.
HE355.3.E94 / A95 2014
303.48/320973
The folklore of the freeway race and revolt in the modernist city / [electronic resource] : Eric Avila. - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2014] - 1 online resource (pages cm.) - A quadrant book . - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: The Invisible Freeway Revolt -- 1. The Master's Plan: The Rise and Fall of the Modernist City -- 2. "Nobody But a Bunch of Mothers": Fighting the Highwaymen During Feminism's Second Wave -- 3. Communities Lost and Found: The Politics of Historical Memory -- 4. A Matter of Perspective: The Racial Politics of Seeing the Freeway -- 5. Taking Back the Freeway: Strategies of Adaptation and Improvisation -- Conclusion: Identity Politics in Post-Interstate America -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.
9781452942896 1452942897
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban.
ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning.
ARCHITECTURE / History / Contemporary (1945-).
Urban planning--United States.
Express highways--Social aspects--United States.
Electronic books.
HE355.3.E94 / A95 2014
303.48/320973