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BL
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846775
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Avila, Eric,1968-
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| Title & Author
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The folklore of the freeway : : race and revolt in the modernist city /\ Eric Avila.
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| Publication Statement
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Minneapolis :: University of Minnesota Press,, 2014.
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, ©2014
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| Series Statement
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A Quadrant Book
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| Page. NO
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1 online resource (251 pages)
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| ISBN
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1452942897
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: 1452947864
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: 9781452942896
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: 9781452947860
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0816680728
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0816680736
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9780816680726
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9780816680733
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Cover; 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; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z.
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| Abstract
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When the interstate highway program connected America's cities, it also divided them, cutting through and destroying countless communities. Affluent and predominantly white residents fought back in a much heralded "freeway revolt," saving such historic neighborhoods as Greenwich Village and New Orleans's French Quarter. This book tells of the other revolt, a movement of creative opposition, commemoration, and preservation staged on behalf of the mostly minority urban neighborhoods that lacked the political and economic power to resist the onslaught of highway construction.
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City planning-- United States.
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Express highways-- Social aspects-- United States.
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ARCHITECTURE-- History-- Contemporary (1945- )
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Business Economics.
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City planning.
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Express highways-- Social aspects.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- General.
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Transportation Economics.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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303.48320973
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HE355.3.E94 .A95 2014
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ARC005080ARC010000SOC026030bisacsh
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SOC026030.bisacsh
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