UID:
almahu_9947548037602882
Format:
1 online resource (xvii, 170 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781108277952 (ebook)
Content:
The Road to Inequality shows how policies that shape geographic space change our politics, focusing on the effects of the largest public works project in American history: the federal highway system. For decades, federally subsidized highways have selectively facilitated migration into fast-growing suburbs, producing an increasingly non-urban Republican electorate. This book examines the highway programs' policy origins at the national level and traces how these intersected with local politics and interests to facilitate complex, mutually-reinforcing processes that have shaped America's growing urban-suburban divide and, with it, the politics of metropolitan public investment. As Americans have become more polarized on urban-suburban lines, attitudes towards transportation policy - a once quintessentially 'local' and non-partisan policy area - are now themselves driven by partisanship, endangering investments in metropolitan programs that provide access to opportunity for millions of Americans.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 16 Mar 2018).
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Introduction -- How highways facilitate partisan geographic sorting -- Highways polarize metropolitan political geography -- Transportation becomes a partisan issue -- Implications for transportation policymaking -- Conclusion.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781108417594
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108277952
URL:
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