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Traffic congestion --- Express highways --- Management --- Europe. --- Singapore.

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Committee Serial No. 84-16.

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The story of the evolution of the urban freeway, the competing visions that informed it, and the emerging alternatives for more sustainable urban transportation.Urban freeways often cut through the heart of a city, destroying neighborhoods, displacing residents, and reconfiguring street maps. These massive infrastructure projects, costing billions of dollars in transportation funds, have been shaped for the last half century by the ideas of highway engineers, urban planners, landscape architects, and architects--with highway engineers playing the leading role. In Changing Lanes, Joseph DiMento and Cliff Ellis describe the evolution of the urban freeway in the United States, from its rural parkway precursors through the construction of the interstate highway system to emerging alternatives for more sustainable urban transportation.DiMento and Ellis describe controversies that arose over urban freeway construction, focusing on three cases: Syracuse, which early on embraced freeways through its center; Los Angeles, which rejected some routes and then built I-105, the most expensive urban road of its time; and Memphis, which blocked the construction of I-40 through its core. Finally, they consider the emerging urban highway removal movement and other innovative efforts by cities to re-envision urban transportation.

Express highways -- Government policy -- United States -- History. --- Express highways -- United States -- History. --- Express highways --- Business & Economics --- Transportation Economics --- History --- Government policy --- History. --- Controlled access highways --- Express roads --- Expressways --- Freeways --- Interstate highways --- Interstates (Express highways) --- Limited access highways --- Motorways --- Superhighways --- Turnpikes (Modern) --- Roads --- Toll roads --- Government policy&delete& --- E-books --- ARCHITECTURE/Urban Design --- ENVIRONMENT/General --- URBANISM/Transportation

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New Jersey is sandwiched between the Hudson and Delaware Rivers, with the Raritan, Passaic, and Navesink cutting swaths across it. In spite of the state's relatively small size, over six thousand bridges span its varied landscape. They traverse rivers, streams, railroads, and roadways. Several dozen bridges cut across the Delaware River alone, carrying pedestrian, vehicular, and railroad traffic. Three connect the state to Staten Island. Some are steeped in history, dating back to the colonial era and the Revolutionary war. Others are recognized worldwide for their size or significance in the annals of engineering. In The Bridges of New Jersey, Steven M. Richman provides a rare photographic and poetic journey across sixty of the state's bridges, ranging from impressive suspension spans such as the Ben Franklin and George Washington Bridges, to the small wrought iron and stone bridges that are cherished by local citizens. The book provides a rich diversity of stories that place the bridges in the context of New Jersey history and culture. Richman also explores the contribution New Jersey bridges have made to engineering-some of the most prominent engineers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries either lived or established businesses in the Garden State or designed its bridges. Lavishly illustrated with over seventy photographs, this book is much more than a documentary survey. It is a visual portrait that beautifully captures the metaphoric significance and aesthetic pleasures of New Jersey's bridges, and indeed all bridges. Perhaps more than any other structure built by humans, bridges typify progress and they give us a sense of connectedness. The Bridges of New Jersey provides a compelling visual demonstration of these symbolic functions, as well as their practical purposes and engineering accomplishments.

Bridges --- Bridges, Highway --- Express highways --- Highway bridges --- Transportation --- Viaducts --- History --- History. --- E-books

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Die sowjetische Blockade Berlins gehört zu den großen Wendepunkten in der Geschichte des Kalten Krieges. Das Hauptaugenmerk der internationalen Forschung gilt dabei bis heute den beiden Supermächten. Großbritannien wird je nach Blickwinkel eine Rolle zwischen Defätismus und Komplizenschaft der westlichen Hegemonialmacht beigemessen.Auf einer breiten Quellengrundlage untersucht Victor Mauer erstmals systematisch die britische Krisenpolitik. Dabei fragt er nach den Akteuren, ihren Handlungsspielräumen und Handlungszwängen, beleuchtet widerstreitende Motive und Interessen, analysiert Verhandlungsstrategien und taktisches Kalkül, arbeitet institutionalisierte und informelle Entscheidungsprozesse heraus, widmet sich der Rolle von Öffentlichkeit und Medien, identifiziert wirkmächtige historische Narrative als Mobilisierungsressource, die dem öffentlichen Bedürfnis nach Komplexitätsreduktion in Krisenzeiten entsprach, und betont die Gleichzeitigkeit der Gegensätze.Die Studie revidiert nicht nur unser Bild von der britischen und damit zugleich von der westlichen Politik während der Blockade Berlins. Sie führt auch zu einer Neubewertung der britischen Deutschlandpolitik, ohne die die Krisenpolitik nicht zu verstehen ist. On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Soviet blockade, a well-sourced study of British crisis policy is being published for the first time, and it yields surprising new insights. Victor Mauer's work revises our notions of British (and thus Western) policy during the Berlin blockade. It also suggests the need to re-evaluate the history of Britain's German policy, without which we cannot understand the crisis policy.

Bridges --- Bridges, Highway --- Express highways --- Highway bridges --- Transportation --- Viaducts --- Cold War. --- crisis management. --- foreign policy.