AT ROAD'S END: TRANSPORTATION AND LAND USE CHOICES FOR COMMUNITIES. SURFACE TRANSPORTATION POLICY PROJECT

This book is an examination of the effects of the post-war auto-oriented transportation system on the form and feel of our communities. The concern was that the car culture, in the name of providing greater freedom and mobility, was actually destroying much of what has made American towns and cities livable; that a kind of monoculture of car-based mobility was upsetting the balance of community. The purpose of this book is to offer models of locally based change which coincide with the major federal policy shifts contained in ISTEA (the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991), namely that federal transportation policy now includes not only more and bigger roads, but planning and funding for getting around on foot, by train, bus, bike, and car.

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  Island Press

  1718 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 300
  Washington, DC  United States  20009-1148
• Authors:
  • Carlson, D
  • Wormser, L
  • Ulberg, C
• Publication Date: 1995

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; Photos; Tables;
• Pagination: 288 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automobile travel; City planning; Communities; Federal assistance programs; Federal government; Land use
• Uncontrolled Terms: Federal programs
• Old TRIS Terms: Land use effects
• Subject Areas: Economics; Highways; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00680556
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 1559633387
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 22 1995 12:00AM