Proceedings of the Congress
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Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,87 MB
Release : 1931
Category : Roads
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Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,87 MB
Release : 1931
Category : Roads
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Author : American Road Congress
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Page : 270 pages
File Size : 49,38 MB
Release : 1912
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Page : 334 pages
File Size : 28,17 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Roads
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Author : Tammy Ingram
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,21 MB
Release : 2014-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1469612992
At the turn of the twentieth century, good highways eluded most Americans and nearly all southerners. In their place, a jumble of dirt roads covered the region like a bed of briars. Introduced in 1915, the Dixie Highway changed all that by merging hundreds of short roads into dual interstate routes that looped from Michigan to Miami and back. In connecting the North and the South, the Dixie Highway helped end regional isolation and served as a model for future interstates. In this book, Tammy Ingram offers the first comprehensive study of the nation's earliest attempt to build a highway network, revealing how the modern U.S. transportation system evolved out of the hard-fought political, economic, and cultural contests that surrounded the Dixie's creation. The most visible success of the Progressive Era Good Roads Movement, the Dixie Highway also became its biggest casualty. It sparked a national dialogue about the power of federal and state agencies, the role of local government, and the influence of ordinary citizens. In the South, it caused a backlash against highway bureaucracy that stymied road building for decades. Yet Ingram shows that after the Dixie Highway, the region was never the same.
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Page : 360 pages
File Size : 31,67 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Policy sciences
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Author : United States. Federal Highway Administration
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Page : 564 pages
File Size : 49,8 MB
Release : 1977
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Page : 572 pages
File Size : 13,88 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Roads
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Page : 254 pages
File Size : 26,53 MB
Release : 1942
Category : State governments
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Author : American Road Congress
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Page : 690 pages
File Size : 18,18 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Roads
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Page : 490 pages
File Size : 28,96 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Roads
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