A Tale of Two Visions: Harland Bartholomew, Robert Moses, and the Development of the American Freeway

Journal of Planning History

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 3-32

  Brown, Jeffrey ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

freeway design; transportation engineering; transportation planning; urban freeways

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992784712     PISSN: 15385132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1538513204272856     Document Type: Article

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