Download or read book America s highways 1776 1976 written by United States. Federal Highway Administration and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Selected Bibliography on Highway Finance written by United States. Bureau of Public Roads and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Highway Practice in the United States of America written by United States. Public Roads Administration and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bulletin has been prepared by the staff of the Public Roads Administration for the use of foreign engineers who come to the United States from all over the world to study and observe highway practice as it has developed in this country, and for other students of highway subjects. The bulletin is divided into four major parts, which report on highway history, administration, and finance; systems and standards; location and design; and construction and maintenance.

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Download or read book A Story of the Beginning Purposes Growth Activities and Achievements of AASHO 1914 1964 written by American Association of State Highway Officials and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Highways Current Literature written by Public Roads Bureau and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book A Description of Twenty five Federal Grant in aid Programs written by United States. Commission on Intergovernmental Relations and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Description of Twenty five Federal Grants in aid Programs written by Intergovernmental Relations Commission and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Oklahoma a History of Five Centuries written by Arrell Morgan Gibson and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Located in the Oklahoma Collection.

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Download or read book Government s Greatest Achievements written by Paul C. Light and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an era of promises to create smaller, more limited government, Americans often forget that the federal government has amassed an extraordinary record of successes over the past half century. Despite seemingly insurmountable odds, it helped rebuild Europe after World War II, conquered polio and other life-threatening diseases, faced down communism, attacked racial discrimination, reduced poverty among the elderly, and put men on the moon. In Government's Greatest Achievements, Paul C. Light explores the federal government's most successful accomplishments over the previous five decades and anticipates the most significant challenges of the next half century. While some successes have come through major legislation such as the 1965 Medicare Act, or large-scale efforts like the Apollo space program, most have been achieved through collections of smaller, often unheralded statutes. Drawing on survey responses from 230 historians and 220 political scientists at colleges and universities nationwide, Light ranks and summarizes the fifty greatest government achievements from 1944 to 1999. The achievements were ranked based on difficulty, importance, and degree of success. Through a series of twenty vignettes, he paints a vivid picture of the most intense government efforts to improve the quality of life both at home and abroad—from enhancing health care and workplace safety, to expanding home ownership, to improving education, to protecting endangered species, to strengthening the national defense. The book also examines how Americans perceive government's greatest achievements, and reveals what they consider to be its most significant failures. America is now calling on the government to resolve another complex, difficult problem: the defeat of terrorism. Light concludes by discussing this enormous task, as well as government's other greatest priorities for the next fifty years.

Download or read book Car Country written by Christopher W. Wells and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2013-05-15 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most people in the United States, going almost anywhere begins with reaching for the car keys. This is true, Christopher Wells argues, because the United States is Car Country—a nation dominated by landscapes that are difficult, inconvenient, and often unsafe to navigate by those who are not sitting behind the wheel of a car. The prevalence of car-dependent landscapes seems perfectly natural to us today, but it is, in fact, a relatively new historical development. In Car Country, Wells rejects the idea that the nation's automotive status quo can be explained as a simple byproduct of an ardent love affair with the automobile. Instead, he takes readers on a tour of the evolving American landscape, charting the ways that transportation policies and land-use practices have combined to reshape nearly every element of the built environment around the easy movement of automobiles. Wells untangles the complicated relationships between automobiles and the environment, allowing readers to see the everyday world in a completely new way. The result is a history that is essential for understanding American transportation and land-use issues today. Watch the book trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48LTKOxxrXQ

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.

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