Big Roads（ISBN=） 英文原版

A man-made wonder, a connective network, an economic force, a
bringer of blight and sprawl and the possibility of escape—the U.S.
interstate system changed the face of our country. The Big
Roads charts the creation of these essential American highways.
From the turn-of-the-century car racing entrepreneur who spurred
the citizen-led “Good Roads” movement, to the handful of driven
engineers who conceived of the interstates and how they would
work—years before Eisenhower knew the plans existed—to the protests
that erupted across the nation when highways reached the cities and
found people unwilling to be uprooted in the name of progress,
Swift follows a winding, fascinating route through
twentieth-century American life.
       How did we get from dirt
tracks to expressways, from main streets to off-ramps, from mud to
concrete and steel in less than a century? Through decades of
politics, activism, and marvels of engineering, we recognize in our
highways the wanderlust, grand scale, and conflicting notions of
citizenship and progress that define America.

Introduction 
PART I
Out of the Mud 
PART II
Connecting the Dots 
PART III
The Crooked Straight, the
Rough Places Plain 
PART IV
The Human Obstacle 
Acknowledgments 
Notes 
Index