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Taking the High Road A Metropolitan Agenda for Transportation Reform

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ISBN-10: 0815748272

ISBN-13: 9780815748274

Edition: 2005

Authors: Bruce Katz, Robert Puentes

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Since the early 1990s, federal transportation laws have slowly started to level the playing field between highway and alternative transportation strategies, as well as between older and newer communities. The Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 and the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century made substantial changes in transportation practices. These laws devolved greater responsibility for planning and implementation to urban development organizations and introduced more flexibility in the spending of federal highway and transit funds. They also created a series of special programs to carry out important national objectives, and they tightened the linkages…    
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Book details

List price: $29.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Publication date: 8/5/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 235
Size: 6.03" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English

Bruce Katz is vice president and founding director of the Metropolitan Policy program at the Brookings Institution. Before joining Brookings he served as chief of staff to then secretary of HUD Henry Cisneros. His books include Reflections on Regionalism(Brookings, 2000) and Taking the High Road: A Metropolitan Agenda for Transportation Reform(Brookings, 2005), which he coedited with Robert Puentes. He is a frequent media commentator on issues of urban and metropolitan policy. Jennifer Bradleyis a fellow in the Metropolitan Policy program at Brookings Institution, where she is codirector of the Great Lakes Economic Initiative. Prior to joining Brookings she was director of the Federalism…    

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