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Index
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface
Introduction: The Invisible Freeway Revolt
The Road from Paris to Honolulu
1: The Master’s Plan: The Rise and Fall of the Modernist City
Of Myth, Mystique, and Magic: Building the Interstate Highway System
The Legend of Scrap Street
The Paths of Least Resistance
The Snake in the City
2: “Nobody but a Bunch of Mothers”: Fighting the Highwaymen during Feminism’s Second Wave
Freeways and the Suburban Mystique
Women and the Freeway Revolt
Feminism under the Freeway
Toward a Feminist Critique of the Modernist City
3: Communities Lost and Found: The Politics of Historical Memory
History with a Vengeance: New York and New Orleans
From the Wreckage of the Past
Race, Space, and Time
4: A Matter of Perspective: The Racial Politics of Seeing the Freeway
“White Man’s Freeway”
Eastside Stories
5: Taking Back the Freeway: Strategies of Adaptation and Improvisation
Under the Freeway
Urban Improvisations
A Park under a Freeway
At Home in the Expressway World
Conclusion: Identity Politics in Post-Interstate America
Haole Highway
Race, Culture, and Concrete
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
Plate Section
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