{"product_id":"power-moves-transportation-politics-and-development-in-houston-paperback-softback-9781477314654","title":"Power Moves; Transportation, Politics, and Development in Houston (Paperback \/ softback) 9781477314654","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePower Moves\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eTransportation, Politics, and Development in Houston\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKyle Shelton (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781477314654, University of Texas Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 15 December 2017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e312 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAs our nation struggles to find the will to repair and develop our failing infrastructure, Shelton's detailed and nuanced account is timely indeed. This is a book worth pondering, written about a city that continues to stumble towards sustainability, justice, and accessibility.\u003c\/div\u003e (Southwestern Historical Quarterly) \u003cdiv\u003eThis book will be of value to regional policy-makers and activists, urban historians and planners, Houston history buffs, and historians of transportation, technology, and the environment. It was a pleasure to read Shelton's work.\u003c\/div\u003e (Environmental History) \u003cdiv\u003eA detailed look at how Houston's transportation infrastructure has shaped the planning and building of the city…While Houston appears to be a typical sun belt metropolis, dominated by automobiles and riven by class and race boundaries, \u003ci\u003ePower Moves\u003c\/i\u003e sheds light on how the city came to be and what unique Houston characteristics the nation is finally noticing.\u003c\/div\u003e (Journal of American History) \u003cdiv\u003eAn important addition to the historiography of Houston…\u003ci\u003ePower Moves\u003c\/i\u003e is essential reading for students and scholars of Houston history and urban history.\u003c\/div\u003e (Pacific Historical Review) \u003cdiv\u003e[An] important book...impressively researched, the arguments being well-evidenced...It is difficult not to be discouraged about the prospects of infrastructure democracy because of very different conceptions of the public good (and because of climate change, a result in great part of our transportation choices). But \u003ci\u003ePower Moves\u003c\/i\u003e shows that democratically achieved positive outcomes, given the right conditions, can sometimes be the result.\u003c\/div\u003e (Journal of Transport History) \u003cdiv\u003eShelton lays out this history of transportation politics in a factual and linear fashion...The book is well researched and outlines some specific outrages, but it is, at its heart, a history.\u003c\/div\u003e (Texas Architect) \u003cdiv\u003e[\u003ci\u003ePower Moves\u003c\/i\u003e] is an ambitious amalgamation of urban studies literature with strong roots in history, and offers important lessons for scholars, practitioners, and students...Shelton's emphasis on citizen participation to steer highway and transit debates sets \u003ci\u003ePower Moves\u003c\/i\u003e apart from most other texts on highway development and urban renewal...\u003ci\u003ePower Moves\u003c\/i\u003e makes a significant and timely contribution to the history of transportation infrastructure in modern American cities. The concept the book introduces around infrastructural citizenship provides a useful methodological tool for understanding how development decisions of the past continue to impact the present and future.\u003c\/div\u003e (Planning Perspectives)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince World War II, Houston has become a burgeoning, internationally connected metropolis-and a sprawling, car-dependent city. In 1950, it possessed only one highway, the Gulf Freeway, which ran between Houston and Galveston. Today, Houston and Harris County have more than 1,200 miles of highways, and a third major loop is under construction nearly thirty miles out from the historic core. Highways have driven every aspect of Houston’s postwar development, from the physical layout of the city to the political process that has transformed both the transportation network and the balance of power between governing elites and ordinary citizens.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePower Moves\u003c\/i\u003e examines debates around the planning, construction, and use of highway and public transportation systems in Houston. Kyle Shelton shows how Houstonians helped shape the city’s growth by attending city council meetings, writing letters to the highway commission, and protesting the destruction of homes to make way for freeways, which happened in both affluent and low-income neighborhoods. He demonstrates that these assertions of what he terms “infrastructural citizenship” opened up the transportation decision-making process to meaningful input from the public and gave many previously marginalized citizens a more powerful voice in civic affairs. \u003ci\u003ePower Moves\u003c\/i\u003e also reveals the long-lasting results of choosing highway and auto-based infrastructure over other transit options and the resulting challenges that Houstonians currently face as they grapple with how best to move forward from the consequences and opportunities created by past choices.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1. Building a Highway Metropolis: The Origins and Advent of Houston's Postwar Growth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2. Whose Highways? Planning, Politics, and Consequences\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3. \"Only You Can Prevent Another Freeway\": The Harrisburg Freeway and the Struggle to Shape a Neighborhood\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4. Infrastructural Elections: Transit Referenda in the 1970s\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5. By Road or by Rail? The 1983 Transit Debate\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e6. The Legacies and Limits of Infrastructural Citizenship\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConclusion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52589127172376,"sku":"9781477314654","price":21.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/power-moves-transportation-politics-and-development-in-houston-paperback-softback-9781477314654","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}