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Power Moves: Transportation, Politics, and Development in Houston Paperback – December 15, 2017

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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.

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    312 pages
  2. Language
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  3. Publisher
    University of Texas Press
  4. Publication date
    December 15, 2017
  5. Dimensions
    6 x 1 x 9 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1477314652
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1477314654
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Power Moves effectively shows how Houston’s built environment was the product of contestation among diverse interest groups, each of which attempted to wield the power at their disposal to shape megaprojects to their own ends. In a moment when such large-scale infrastructure projects are again entering our political debate, this book could not be more timely. An important contribution to Texas history and US urban history more broadly. -- Max Krochmal, author of Blue Texas: The Making of a Multiracial Democratic Coalition in the Civil Rights Era

About the Author

Kyle Shelton 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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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Texas Press (December 15, 2017)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 312 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1477314652
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1477314654
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.04 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1 x 9 inches
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Kyle Shelton is the director of the Center for Transportation Studies at the University of Minnesota. He previously worked at the Kinder Institute for Urban Research at Rice University. Shelton has a PhD in American History from University of Texas-Austin. His research focuses on how the intersections of transportation, urban development, and policy shape the built and natural environments of cities in the past and today.

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A very important and interesting book, essential and engrossing reading for anyone interested in transportation policy and urban planning, with many valuable insights and lessons.
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