The Road to Inequality: How the Federal Highway Program Polarized America and Undermined Cities (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781108417594)

The Road to Inequality shows how policies that shape geographic space change our politics, focusing on the effects of the largest public works project in American history: the federal highway system. For decades, federally subsidized highways have selectively facilitated migration into fast-growing suburbs, producing an increasingly non-urban Republican electorate. This book examines the highway programs' policy origins at the national level and traces how these intersected with local politics and interests to facilitate complex, mutually-reinforcing processes that have shaped America's growing urban-suburban divide and, with it, the politics of metropolitan public investment. As Americans have become more polarized on urban-suburban lines, attitudes towards transportation policy - a once quintessentially 'local' and non-partisan policy area - are now themselves driven by partisanship, endangering investments in metropolitan programs that provide access to opportunity for millions of Americans.

Author: Clayton Nall
ISBN-10: 1108417590
ISBN-13: 9781108417594
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/22/2018
Pages: 186
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.87lbs
Size: 9.28h x 6.39w x 0.66d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2018