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.
| ISBN: | 9781108417594 |
| Publication date: | 22nd March 2018 |
| Author: | Clayton (Stanford University, California) Nall |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 186 pages |
| Genres: |
Society and Social Sciences Politics and government Central / national / federal government Sociology and anthropology Sociology Population and demography Urban and municipal planning and policy Transport planning and policy History of the Americas |