From Rails to Trails: The Making of America's Active Transportation Network - Couverture souple

Harnik, Peter

 
9781496222060: From Rails to Trails: The Making of America's Active Transportation Network
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1496222067 ISBN 13 : 9781496222060
Editeur : University of Nebraska Press, 2021

Synopsis

If, as Wallace Stegner said, the national park is "the best idea we ever had," the rail-trail is certainly a close runner-up. Part transportation corridor, part park, the rail-trail has revolutionized the way America creates high-quality, car-free pathways for bicyclists, runners, walkers, equestrians, and more.

It was only a few decades after railroad barons had run roughshod over America's economy and politics that they began to shed nearly one hundred thousand miles of unneeded railroad corridor. At the same time, bicyclists were being so thoroughly pushed off ever-more-intimidating roadways they came close to extinction. Through political organizing and lawyerly grit, an unlikely, formerly marginalized advocacy arose, seized on seemingly worthless strips of land, and created a resource that is treasured by millions of Americans today for recreation, purposeful travel, tourism, conservation, and historical interpretation.

From Rails to Trails is the fascinating tale of the rails-to-trails movement as well as a consideration of what the continued creation of rail-trails means for the future of Americans' health, nonmotorized transportation networks, and communities across the country.

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À propos de l?auteur

Peter Harnik is cofounder of Rails-to-Trails Conservancy and founder of the Center for City Park Excellence at the Trust for Public Land. He is the author of Urban Green: Innovative Parks for Resurgent Cities and Inside City Parks as well as a former editor of both Environmental Action magazine and Trailblazer quarterly.

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Éditeur
University of Nebraska Press
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1496222067
ISBN 13 
9781496222060
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
288
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