interstate highway system

With the infrastructure of America crumbling, the author, renowned engineer and historian Henry Petroski, takes a serious look at US roads and bridges. Highlights the necessity of maintaining our roads and bridges and calls citizens to take action to demand the government repair and maintain these infrastructures. Includes charts and photographs.

Examines how highways and government policies have transformed and expanded American communities, bringing growth and development to unsettled areas and undermining existing urban centers.

Details the history of the creation of the U.S. interstate system, identifies the people involved in the development of American highways, and looks at how the interstates have transformed the country.

Examines the Interstate Highway Act of 1956 and the network of expressways built under the Eisenhower administration.