Download or read book Highway Development and Local Government written by Donald Levitan and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Highway Development and Local Government written by Donald Levitan and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Public Road Systems of Foreign Countries and of the Several States written by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Federal Aid in the Construction of Post Roads and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The American Road written by Katherine M. Johnson and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2021-06-23 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The American Road Katherine M. Johnson develops a bold new theory for how the American highway system has taken on such outsized scale and complexity by emphasizing the emergence of a powerful administrative apparatus in the American federal system. Established in 1914 expressly to intervene in the congressional debates of the era, the American highway bureaucracy consisted of forty-eight state highway officials acting in and through their self-organized association, the American Association of State Highway Officials. Johnson’s central argument is that this new institution occupied a similar position relative to the American state as political parties and courts did. The capacity to organize across a complex constitutional order enabled it to control the purpose and allocation of federal highway aid for the better part of the twentieth century. Johnson investigates this new conception of the American highway bureaucracy, showing specifically where and how that extraconstitutional authority emerged, expanded, and manifested itself in the legislative history, physical dimensions, and geographical reach of the emerging highway system. The American Road reveals that all of the major highway legislation approved by Congress from 1916 to 1941 was collectively developed and advanced by state and federal highway bureaucrats drawing on the new authority conferred by the system of federal grants-in-aid, which required state legislatures to provide a state matching grant and local governments to relinquish control over decisions of location and design. The capacity to advance their policy aims through both the advice of experts and the will of the states not only secured the new highway program against renewed opposition in Congress in the 1920s but also won the strong support of the motor vehicle industry and set the stage for even more impressive policy gains of the 1930s when highways became the largest category of federal emergency public works. That collective authority, however, required a high threshold of consensus to secure and maintain, producing not just a narrow one-size-fits-all approach to technical issues but also a striking incapacity to respond to changing conditions. Johnson completes her compelling narrative by identifying the source of the interstate highway plan, first proposed in 1939 and finally funded in 1956, in the internal dynamics of and external threats to that extraconstitutional authority.

Download or read book The Role of the Federal Government in Highway Development written by George Donald Kennedy and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Maintaining the Existing Infrastructure written by Harry P. Hatry and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Return of State Highways to Local Governments written by Theodore H. Poister and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Interim Project Development Manual for Non national Highway System Local Government Road and Street Projects written by Kansas. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Local Projects and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Gravel Roads written by Ken Skorseth and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this manual is to provide clear and helpful information for maintaining gravel roads. Very little technical help is available to small agencies that are responsible for managing these roads. Gravel road maintenance has traditionally been "more of an art than a science" and very few formal standards exist. This manual contains guidelines to help answer the questions that arise concerning gravel road maintenance such as: What is enough surface crown? What is too much? What causes corrugation? The information is as nontechnical as possible without sacrificing clear guidelines and instructions on how to do the job right.

Download or read book Local Government s Share of State Collected Highway Funds and Revenues written by National League of Cities and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Role of the Federal Government in Highway Development written by George Donald Kennedy and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Highway Construction Practices in the State of Louisiana and Related Matters written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works. Special Subcommittee on the Federal-Aid Highway Program and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Committee Serial No. 89-10. Investigates Federal Aid Highway Program administration in Louisiana including allegations of mismanagement.

Download or read book Urban Freeway Systems written by Washington State Council for Highway Research and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book State local Highway Financing written by Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Joint State Government Commission and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Highways in the United States written by United States. Bureau of Public Roads and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Highways a Proposed Administrative and Financial Program written by Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Joint State Government Commission. Subcommittee on State-Local Highway Financing and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Divided Highways written by Tom Lewis and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-19 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Anyone who has ever driven on a U.S. interstate highway or eaten at an exit-ramp McDonald’s will come away from this book with a better understanding of what makes modern America what it is." – Chicago Tribune "A fascinating work... with a subject central to contemporary life but to which few, if any, have devoted so much thoughtful analysis and good humor." – Minneapolis Star-Tribune "Divided Highways is the best and most important book yet published about how asphalt and concrete have changed the United States. Quite simply, the Interstate Highway System is the longest and largest engineered structure in the history of the world, and it has enormously influenced every aspect of American life. Tom Lewis is an engaging prose stylist with a gift for the telling anecdote and appropriate example."—Kenneth T. Jackson, Harvard Design Magazine "Lewis provides a comprehensive and balanced examination of America’s century-long infatuation with the automobile and the insatiable demands for more and better road systems. He has written a sprightly and richly documented book on a vital subject."—Richard O. Davies, Journal of American History "Lewis describes in a convincing, lively, and well-documented narrative the evolution of America’s roadway system from one of the world’s worst road networks to its best."—John Pucher, Journal of the American Planning Association "This brightly written history of the U.S. federal highway program is like the annual report of a successful company that has had grim second thoughts. The first half recounts progress made, while the second suggests that the good news is not quite what it seems."—Publishers Weekly "Lewis is a very talented and engaging writer, and the tale he tells—the vision for the Interstates, Congressional battles, construction, and the impact of new highways on American life—is important to understanding the shape of the contemporary American landscape."—David Schuyler, Arthur and Katherine Shadek Professor of the Humanities and American Studies at Franklin & Marshall College, author of Sanctified Landscape: Writers, Artists, and the Hudson River Valley, 1820–1909 In Divided Highways, Tom Lewis offers an encompassing account of highway development in the United States. In the early twentieth century Congress created the Bureau of Public Roads to improve roads and the lives of rural Americans. The Bureau was the forerunner of the Interstate Highway System of 1956, which promoted a technocratic approach to modern road building sometimes at the expense of individual lives, regional characteristics, and the landscape. With thoughtful analysis and engaging prose Lewis charts the development of the Interstate system, including the demographic and economic pressures that influenced its planning and construction and the disputes that pitted individuals and local communities against engineers and federal administrators. This is a story of America’s hopes for its future life and the realities of its present condition. Originally published in 1997, this book is an engaging history of the people and policies that profoundly transformed the American landscape—and the daily lives of Americans. In this updated edition of Divided Highways, Lewis brings his story of the Interstate system up to date, concluding with Boston’s troubled and yet triumphant Big Dig project, the growing antipathy for big federal infrastructure projects, and the uncertain economics of highway projects both present and future.