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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.

Transportation and state --- Highway planning --- Political geography. --- Suburbs --- Election districts --- Urban policy --- Outskirts of cities --- Suburban areas --- Suburbia --- Cities and towns --- City planning --- Metropolitan areas --- Geography, Political --- Human geography --- Road planning --- Roads --- Transportation --- Highway engineering --- Political aspects --- Growth --- Planning --- Federal Highway Program (U.S.) --- Federal-aid Highway Program (U.S.) --- United States --- Politics and government. --- Government --- History, Political

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Roads and parking lots in the United States cover more ground than the entire state of Georgia. And while proponents of sustainable transit often focus on getting people off the roads, they will remain at the heart of our transportation systems for the foreseeable future. In Creating Green Roadways, James and Matthew Sipes demonstrate that roads don’t have to be the enemy of sustainability: they can be designed to minimally impact the environment while improving quality of life. The authors examine traditional, utilitarian methods of transportation planning that have resulted in a host of negative impacts: from urban sprawl and congestion to loss of community identity and excess air and water pollution. They offer a better approach—one that blends form and function. Creating Green Roadways covers topics including transportation policy, the basics of green road design, including an examination of complete streets, public involvement, road ecology, and the economics of sustainable roads. Case studies from metropolitan, suburban, and rural transportation projects around the country, along with numerous photographs, illustrate what makes a project successful. The need for this information has never been greater, as more than thirty percent of America’s major roads are in poor or mediocre condition, more than a quarter of the nation’s bridges are structurally deficient or functionally obsolete, and congestion in communities of all sizes has never been worse. Creating Green Roadways offers a practical strategy for rethinking how we design, plan, and maintain our transportation infrastructure.

Roads --- Context sensitive solutions (Transportation) --- Highway planning --- Ecological landscape design --- Traffic safety --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Civil & Environmental Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Environmental Sciences --- Transportation Engineering --- Human factors --- Design and construction --- Road planning --- Automobile driving --- Highway safety --- Road safety --- Traffic accidents --- Ecologically sound landscape design --- Environmentally sound landscape design --- CSSs (Context sensitive solutions) --- Highways --- Roadways --- Thoroughfares --- Planning --- Safety measures --- Prevention --- Environment. --- Architecture. --- Landscape architecture. --- Engineering design. --- Human geography. --- Environment, general. --- Cities, Countries, Regions. --- Landscape Architecture. --- Human Geography. --- Engineering Design. --- Environmental sciences. --- Environmental science --- Science --- Anthropo-geography --- Anthropogeography --- Geographical distribution of humans --- Social geography --- Anthropology --- Geography --- Human ecology --- Design, Engineering --- Engineering --- Industrial design --- Strains and stresses --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Design --- Horticultural service industry --- Landscape gardening --- Landscaping industry --- Architecture, Primitive --- Balance of nature --- Biology --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Environmental sciences --- Population biology --- Ecology