Houston Freeways

Houston Freeways
Title Houston Freeways PDF eBook
Author Erik Slotboom
Publisher
Pages 426
Release 2003
Genre History
ISBN

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Houston/Harris County Metropolitan Area Southwest-Westpark Corridor Transitway Alternatives

Houston/Harris County Metropolitan Area Southwest-Westpark Corridor Transitway Alternatives
Title Houston/Harris County Metropolitan Area Southwest-Westpark Corridor Transitway Alternatives PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 580
Release 1980
Genre
ISBN

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Power Moves

Power Moves
Title Power Moves PDF eBook
Author Kyle Shelton
Publisher University of Texas Press
Pages 313
Release 2018-01-10
Genre History
ISBN 1477314679

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Since World War II, Houston has become a burgeoning, internationally connected metropolis—and a sprawling, car-dependent city. In 1950, it possessed only one highway, the Gulf Freeway, which ran between Houston and Galveston. Today, Houston and Harris County have more than 1,200 miles of highways, and a third major loop is under construction nearly thirty miles out from the historic core. Highways have driven every aspect of Houston’s postwar development, from the physical layout of the city to the political process that has transformed both the transportation network and the balance of power between governing elites and ordinary citizens. Power Moves examines debates around the planning, construction, and use of highway and public transportation systems in Houston. Kyle Shelton shows how Houstonians helped shape the city’s growth by attending city council meetings, writing letters to the highway commission, and protesting the destruction of homes to make way for freeways, which happened in both affluent and low-income neighborhoods. He demonstrates that these assertions of what he terms “infrastructural citizenship” opened up the transportation decision-making process to meaningful input from the public and gave many previously marginalized citizens a more powerful voice in civic affairs. Power Moves also reveals the long-lasting results of choosing highway and auto-based infrastructure over other transit options and the resulting challenges that Houstonians currently face as they grapple with how best to move forward from the consequences and opportunities created by past choices.

Dallas-Fort Worth Freeways

Dallas-Fort Worth Freeways
Title Dallas-Fort Worth Freeways PDF eBook
Author Erik Slotboom
Publisher
Pages 540
Release 2014-04-01
Genre Express highways
ISBN 9780974160511

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History of Dallas-Fort Worth freeways and associated landmarks and events

Houston

Houston
Title Houston PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 1008
Release 1963
Genre
ISBN

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Invisible Houston

Invisible Houston
Title Invisible Houston PDF eBook
Author Robert Doyle Bullard
Publisher
Pages 184
Release 1987
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN

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In this book sociologist Robert D. Bullard explores the major social, economic, and political factors that helped make Houston the "golden buckle" of the Sunbelt. He then chronicles the rise of Houston's black neighborhoods. Using case studies conducted in Houston's Third Ward, the city's most diverse black neighborhood, he discusses housing patterns, discrimination, law enforcement, and leadership, relating these to the larger issues of institutional racism, poverty, and politics. Book jacket.

The Texanist

The Texanist
Title The Texanist PDF eBook
Author David Courtney
Publisher University of Texas Press
Pages 120
Release 2017-04-25
Genre Humor
ISBN 1477312978

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A collection of Courtney's columns from the Texas Monthly, curing the curious, exorcizing bedevilment, and orienting the disoriented, advising "on such things as: Is it wrong to wear your football team's jersey to church? When out at a dancehall, do you need to stick with the one that brung ya? Is it real Tex-Mex if it's served with a side of black beans? Can one have too many Texas-themed tattoos?"--Amazon.com.