MEGA-PROJECTS: THE CHANGING POLITICS OF URBAN PUBLIC INVESTMENT

This volume presents original research focusing on mega-projects in transportation in areas such as highway engineering, airports, and urban rail and other types of transit. Several major themes explored herein center on issues related to policy decisions in public investment and infrastructure made during the 1950s to the 1970s. Findings are integrated with leading theories of urban politics and with the empirical research of other authors on urban renewal and its successors. National patterns and intergovernmental partnerships are also examined. Lastly, whereas most in-depth studies of urban politics focus on relatively brief time periods and portray apparently stable patterns of influence, this work examines developments over a 50+ year time frame, long enough for considerable evolution to have occurred.

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  Brookings Institution

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• Authors:
  • Altshuler, A
  • Luberoff, D
• Publication Date: 2003

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Photos; References;
• Pagination: 339 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Airports; Arterial highways; Financing; Infrastructure; Intergovernmental partnerships; Investments; Political factors; Project management; Public works; Rail transit; Regional transportation; Urban development; Urban transportation policy
• Geographic Terms: United States
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Aviation; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Railroads; Society; Terminals and Facilities; I10: Economics and Administration; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00977788
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0815701292
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 12 2004 12:00AM