Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Fig. 0.1. Houston Highway and Rail Map with Case Studies Highlighted x
4. Introduction 1
5. 1 Building a Highway Metropolis: The Origins and Advent of Houston’s Postwar Growth 29
6. 2 Whose Highways? Planning, Politics, and Consequences 55
7. 3 “Only You Can Prevent Another Freeway”: The Harrisburg Freeway and the Struggle to Shape a Neighborhood 91
8. 4 Infrastructural Elections: Transit Referenda in the 1970s 120
9. 5 By Road or by Rail? The 1983 Transit Debate 162
10. 6 The Legacies and Limits of Infrastructural Citizenship 196
11. Conclusion 219
12. Acknowledgments 235
13. Notes 239
14. Index 299