The Lincoln Highway: Iowa
Author : Gregory M. Franzwa
Publisher :
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 13,5 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Travel
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Author : Gregory M. Franzwa
Publisher :
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 13,5 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Travel
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Author : Robert W. Poole
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 23,40 MB
Release : 2018-08-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 022655760X
A transportation expert makes a provocative case for changing the nation’s approach to highways, offering “bold, innovative thinking on infrastructure” (Rick Geddes, Cornell University). Americans spend hours every day sitting in traffic. And the roads they idle on are often rough and potholed, with exits, tunnels, guardrails, and bridges in terrible disrepair. According to transportation expert Robert Poole, this congestion and deterioration are outcomes of the way America manages its highways. Our twentieth-century model overly politicizes highway investment decisions, short-changing maintenance and often investing in projects whose costs exceed their benefits. In Rethinking America’s Highways, Poole examines how our current model of state-owned highways came about and why it is failing to satisfy its customers. He argues for a new model that treats highways themselves as public utilities—like electricity, telephones, and water supply. If highways were provided commercially, Poole argues, people would pay for highways based on how much they used, and the companies would issue revenue bonds to invest in facilities people were willing to pay for. Arguing for highway investments to be motivated by economic rather than political factors, this book makes a carefully-reasoned and well-documented case for a new approach to highways.
Author : Dominic A. Pacyga
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 42,18 MB
Release : 2009-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0226644324
Chicago has been called by many names. Nelson Algren declared it a “City on the Make.” Carl Sandburg dubbed it the “City of Big Shoulders.” Upton Sinclair christened it “The Jungle,” while New Yorkers, naturally, pronounced it “the Second City.” At last there is a book for all of us, whatever we choose to call Chicago. In this magisterial biography, historian Dominic Pacyga traces the storied past of his hometown, from the explorations of Joliet and Marquette in 1673 to the new wave of urban pioneers today. The city’s great industrialists, reformers, and politicians—and, indeed, the many not-so-great and downright notorious—animate this book, from Al Capone and Jane Addams to Mayor Richard J. Daley and President Barack Obama. But what distinguishes this book from the many others on the subject is its author’s uncommon ability to illuminate the lives of Chicago’s ordinary people. Raised on the city’s South Side and employed for a time in the stockyards, Pacyga gives voice to the city’s steelyard workers and kill floor operators, and maps the neighborhoods distinguished not by Louis Sullivan masterworks, but by bungalows and corner taverns. Filled with the city’s one-of-a-kind characters and all of its defining moments, Chicago: A Biography is as big and boisterous as its namesake—and as ambitious as the men and women who built it.
Author : James R. Wright
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 11,23 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738560021
The Dixie Highway, once a main thoroughfare from Chicago to Miami, was part of an improved network of roads traversing the landscape of 10 states. A product of the Good Roads Movement of the early 20th century, construction on the highway in Illinois took place from 1916 to 1921. When completed in 1921, the Dixie Highway was the longest continuous paved road in the state. It ran through parts of Cook, Will, Kankakee, Iroquois, and Vermilion Counties, with service stations, roadside diners, and campgrounds sprouting up along the way. With over 200 vintage photographs, The Dixie Highway in Illinois takes readers on a tour from the Art Institute of Chicago, in the heart of the city on Michigan Avenue, to the Illinois state line east of Danville, exploring this historic highway and the communities it passes through.
Author : Stephen B. Goddard
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 46,3 MB
Release : 1996-11-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226300436
From the glory days of the railroad to today's gridlocked, six-lane highway, Getting There dramatizes America's shift from rail to road transportation, how it has robbed Americans of the choice of travel options enjoyed by Europeans, and why it threatens the nation's economic future. Stephen B. Goddard reveals how government joined automakers and roadbuilders to nearly destroy the rails, and why the 21st century will witness high-tech remedies and a railroad resurgence.
Author : David Marusek
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 25,41 MB
Release : 2007-10-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429932503
Counting Heads is David Marusek's extraordinary launch as an SF novelist: The year is 2134, and the Information Age has given rise to the Boutique Economy in which mass production and mass consumption are rendered obsolete. Life extension therapies have increased the human lifespan by centuries. Loyal mentars (artificial intelligences) and robots do most of society's work. The Boutique Economy has made redundant ninety-nine percent of the world's fifteen billion human inhabitants. The world would be a much better place if they all simply went away. Eleanor K. Starke, one of the world's leading citizens is assassinated, and her daughter, Ellen, is mortally wounded. Only Ellen, the heir to her mother's financial empire, is capable of saving Earth from complete domination plotted by the cynical, selfish, immortal rich, that is if she survives. Her cryonically frozen head is in the hands of her family's enemies. A ragtag ensemble of unlikely heroes join forces to rescue Ellen's head, all for their own purposes. Counting Heads arrives as a science fiction novel like a bolt of electricity, galvanizing readers with an entirely new vision of the future. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Mary Lynn McCree Bryan
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 18,38 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Author : State of State of Illinois
Publisher :
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 17,35 MB
Release : 2021-07-19
Category :
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Illinois 2021 Rules of the Road handbook, drive safe!
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 44,88 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Roads
ISBN :
Author : Jack DeVere Rittenhouse
Publisher :
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 32,5 MB
Release : 1946
Category : Automobile travel
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