Folklore of the Freeway Race and Revolt in the Modernist City

Name: Folklore of the Freeway Race and Revolt in the Modernist City
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ISBN: 9780816680733

ISBN-10: 0816680736

ISBN-13: 9780816680733

Edition: 2014

Authors: Eric Avila

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When the interstate highway program connected America's cities, it also divided them, cutting through and destroying countless communities. Affluent and predominantly white residents fought back in a much heralded "freeway revolt," saving such historic neighborhoods as Greenwich Village and New Orleans's French Quarter. This book tells of the other revolt, a movement of creative opposition, commemoration, and preservation staged on behalf of the mostly minority urban neighborhoods that lacked the political and economic power to resist the onslaught of highway construction.Within the context of the larger historical forces of the 1960s and 1970s, Eric Avila maps the creative strategies…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 6/21/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English