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North Carolina Department of transporation : transporation improvement program.
Subjects: North Carolina. Department of Transportation; North Carolina. Department of Transportation and Highway Safety; Transportation; Roads; Bridges; Express highways; Interstate Highway System;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Three kinds of motion : Kerouac, Pollock, and the making of American highways / by Hanick, Riley,author.(CARDINAL)408788;
Includes bibliographical references.""Like a great conversationalist, Hanick paints a generous canvas, and I rode the length of this powerful book much like I first experienced the American interstate: songs on the stereo, windows down, and the bittersweet sense that youth is fleeting. Three Kinds of Motion holds open a wild and beautiful journey, not to be missed."-Thalia FieldIn 1943, Peggy Guggenheim commissioned a mural from Jackson Pollock to hang in the entryway of her Manhattan townhouse. It was the largest Pollock canvas she would ever own, and four years later she gave it to a small Midwestern institution with no place to put it. When the original scroll of On the Road goes on tour across the country, it lands at the same Iowa museum housing Peggy's Pollock, revitalizing Riley Hanick's adolescent fascination with the author. Alongside these two narrative threads, Hanick revisits Dwight D. Eisenhower's quest to build America's first interstate highway system. When catastrophic rains flood the Iowa highways with their famous allure and history of conquest, they also threaten the museum and its precious mural. In Three Kinds of Motion, his razor-sharp, funny, and intensely vulnerable book-length essay, Hanick moves deftly between his three subjects. He delivers a story with breathtaking ingenuity.Riley Hanick is an essayist, journalist, and translator. His work has received support from the Jentel and McKnight foundations and he has served as a writer-in-residence for the University of Iowa Museum of Art. He teaches at Murray State University"--
Subjects: Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969; Pollock, Jackson, 1912-1956; Art and literature; Interstate Highway System.;
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The big roads : the untold story of the engineers, visionaries, and trailblazers who created the American superhighways / by Swift, Earl,1958-(CARDINAL)704802;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 328-358) and index.Introduction -- Out of the mud -- Connecting the dots -- The crooked straight, the rough places plain -- The human obstacle."A man-made wonder, a connective network, an economic force, a bringer of blight and sprawl and the possibility of escape-- the U.S. interstate system changed the face of our country. The Big Roads charts the creation of these essential American highways. From the turn-of-the-century car racing entrepreneur who spurred the citizen-led "Good Roads" movement, to the handful of driven engineers who conceived of the interstates and how they would work years before President Eisenhower knew the plans existed to the protests that erupted across the nation when highways reached the cities and found people unwilling to be uprooted in the name of progress, Swift follows a winding, fascinating route through twentieth-century American life. How did we get from dirt tracks to expressways, from main streets to off-ramps, from mud to concrete and steel, in less than a century? Through decades of politics, activism, and marvels of engineering, we recognize in our highways the wanderlust, grand scale, and conflicting notions of citizenship and progress that define America"--"A history of the planning, construction, and impact of the U.S. interstate highway system"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Fisher, Carl G. (Carl Graham), 1874-1939.; MacDonald, Thomas H. (Thomas Harris), 1881-1957.; Highway engineering; Highway engineers; Interstate Highway System;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 6
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20th century sprawl : highways and the reshaping of the American landscape / by Gutfreund, Owen D.,1963-(CARDINAL)275343;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-283) and index.1660L
Subjects: Case studies.; Cities and towns; Interstate Highway System; Roads; Transportation, Automotive;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The road taken : the history and future of America's infrastructure / by Petroski, Henry,author.(CARDINAL)179009;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-304) and index."Physical infrastructure in the United States is crumbling. The American Society of Civil Engineers has, in its latest report, given American roads and bridges a grade of D and C+, respectively, and has described roughly sixty-five thousand bridges in the United States as 'structurally deficient.' This crisis--and one need look no further than the I-35W bridge collapse in Minnesota to see that it is indeed a crisis--shows little sign of abating short of a massive change in attitude amongst politicians and the American public. In The Road Taken, acclaimed historian Henry Petroski explores our core infrastructure from historical and contemporary perspectives and explains how essential their maintenance is to America's economic health. Recounting the long history behind America's highway system, Petroski reveals the genesis of our interstate numbering system (even roads go east-west, odd go north-south), the inspiration behind the center line that has divided roads for decades, and the creation of such taken-for-granted objects as guardrails, stop signs, and traffic lights--all crucial parts of our national and local infrastructure. His history of the rebuilding of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge reveals the complex and challenging interplay between government and industry inherent in the conception, funding, design, and building of major infrastructure projects, while his forensic analysis of the street he lives on--its potholes, gutters, and curbs--will engage homeowners everywhere. A compelling work of history, The Road Taken is also an urgent clarion call aimed at American citizens, politicians, and anyone with a vested interest in our economic well-being. The road we take in the next decade toward rebuilding our aging infrastructure will in large part determine our future national prosperity"--
Subjects: Roads; Roads; Roads; Roads; Interstate Highway System; Infrastructure (Economics);
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 6
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[Installation of 9.5 miles of communications cable, closed circuit television surveillance cameras, vehicle detection units, junction boxes, and other equipment for an intelligent transportation system on I-85, I-77 and NC-16 in downtown Charlotte to integrate the city's Traffic Operations Center with the NCDOT Metrolina Regional Transportation Management Center, TIP project no. U-4440A & U-4440B, state project no. 8.0130010 & 8.0130017, federal project no. ITS-00NC(001) & TCSP-1003(29) : categorical exclusion action classification form]. by North Carolina.Department of Transportation.Project Development and Environmental Analysis Branch.(CARDINAL)296841;
Subjects: Intelligent transportation systems; Highway planning; Roads; Environmental impact statements;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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The story of America's roads / by Spangenburg, Ray,1939-(CARDINAL)725888; Moser, Diane,1944-(CARDINAL)725887;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 75-76) and index.Reviews the history of road building in the U.S. from the first paved streets of colonial times, to the early western wagon trails, and to today's Interstate Highway System.
Subjects: Roads; Roads;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Bold endeavors / by Rohatyn, Felix G.,1928-2019.(CARDINAL)734752;
The Louisiana Purchase -- The Erie Canal -- The Transcontinental Railroad -- The Land Grant Colleges -- The Homestead Act -- The Panama Canal -- The Rural Electrification Administration -- The Reconstruction Finance Corporation -- The G.I. Bill -- The Interstate Highway System.Describes ten large-scale public investments, including the Louisiana Purchase, the Panama Canal, and the G.I. Bill, and their impact on American economics and society.
Subjects: Infrastructure (Economics); Public investments; Public works;
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Asphalt and politics : a history of the American highway system / by Karnes, Thomas L.(CARDINAL)201491;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-211) and index.Good roads -- Where there is no road -- The Lincoln Highway Association -- The military complex -- The consequences -- The Congress -- Pie in the sky -- Tales from a few cities -- The brass -- Dollars -- Innovative highway financing -- Congestion pricing -- The private sector -- L'envoi."This examination of the interstate highway system in the United States, and the forces that shaped it, includes the introduction of the automobile, the Good Roads Movement, and the Lincoln Highway Association. It offers an analysis of state and federal road funding, modern road-building options, and the successes and failures of the current highway system"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Express highways; Express highways; Express highways;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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1980 estimate of the cost for resurfacing, restoration and rehabilitation of the interstate system in the state of North Carolina / by North Carolina.Division of Highways.(CARDINAL)162414; United States.Federal Highway Administration.(CARDINAL)139839;
Subjects: Express highways; Roads;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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