Title
Artere Urbane: Tre Diversi Esperimenti Nelle Citta Americane (Urban Freeway Decisions: Different Outcomes and Explanations in Three American Cities)
Recommended Citation
Joseph F.C. DiMento, Artere Urbane: Tre Diversi Esperimenti Nelle Citta Americane (Urban Freeway Decisions: Different Outcomes and Explanations in Three American Cities), 32 Storia Urbana 69 (2009).
Abstract
Using three case studies, Syracuse New York, Memphis Tennessee and, Interstate 105 in Los Angeles, I trace the changing regulatory environment for decision-making on interstate highway construction within inner cities in the United States. Syracuse saw construction before the evolution of a modern environmental, historical, transportation and housing law; in Memphis the freeway was stopped by citizen actions resulting in judicial interpretations of federal highway law; and the Los Angeles resolution was molded by a consent decree entered after a law suit brought by a new public interest law firm.