The Road to Inequality
The Road to Inequality

Author: Clayton Nall

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-03-22

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 1108280978

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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.

A Documentary History of Arkansas
A Documentary History of Arkansas

Author: C. Fred Williams

Publisher: University of Arkansas Press

Published: 2013-07-01

Total Pages: 461

ISBN-13: 1557286345

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A Documentary History of Arkansas, Second edition, provides a comprehensive look at Arkansas history from the state's earliest events to the present. Here are newspaper articles, government bulletins, legislative acts, broadsides, letters, and speeches that give a firsthand glimpse at how the twenty-fifth state's history was made. The book is divided into five chronological sections that cover the state's political, social, economic, educational, and environmental history. Each section begins with an original essay that provides an overview of the period and introduces the documents. Brought up to date and enhanced with additional material, this edition of A Documentary History of Arkansas will continue to be the standard source for essential primary documents illustrating the state's history. -- from back cover.

Revenue, Highway Program, and Federal Payment Formula
Revenue, Highway Program, and Federal Payment Formula

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia. Subcommittee No. 2

Publisher:

Published: 1965

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13:

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Considers. H.R. 560 and related H.R. 7066, to increase D.C. income and gasoline taxes, and to provide additional borrowing authority for the highway fund. H.R. 4766, to authorize Federal loans to D.C. capital improvement programs. H.R. 6889, to authorize the Commissioners of D.C. to borrow funds for capital improvement programs.

Highway Politics in Virginia
Highway Politics in Virginia

Author: Gary M. Bowman

Publisher: Univ Publ Assn

Published: 1992-12-04

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 1461723663

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Bowman describes Governor Gerald L. Balies' attempt to address the transportation problems caused by rapid suburban growth by reorienting the highway program from rural to suburban areas. He describes the political background and the political consequences of the program change. This is the only recent analysis of a state's attempt to change its approach to highway policy and the only analysis of highway politics of any American state.