Power Moves: Transportation, Politics, and Development in Houston by Shelton, Kyle

Power Moves: Transportation, Politics, and Development in Houston

Since World War II, Houston has become a burgeoning, internationally connected metropolis--and a sprawling, car-dependent city. In...
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Power Moves: Transportation, Politics, and Development in Houston by Shelton, Kyle

Power Moves: Transportation, Politics, and Development in Houston

CHF 63.69

Power Moves: Transportation, Politics, and Development in Houston

CHF 63.69
Author: Kyle Shelton
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Since 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.

Power Moves 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. Power Moves 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.



Author: Kyle Shelton
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 12/15/2017
Pages: 312
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781477314654

About the Author
KYLE SHELTONHouston, TexasShelton is the director of strategic partnerships and a fellow at Rice University's Kinder Institute for Urban Research. His writing on transportation and urban development has appeared in the Houston Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, Journal of Urban History, Nature, and CityLab.


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