The Merritt Parkway / Bruce Radde.

Main entry:

Radde, Bruce, 1935-

Title & Author:

The Merritt Parkway / Bruce Radde.

Publication:

Description:

xii, 135 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 126-132) and index.
1. Coping With the Automobile in America -- 2. The Fight Over a Connecticut Parkway -- 3. Mapping the Route, Uncovering the Corruption -- 4. Designing & Building the Merritt Parkway -- 5. The Parkway's Early History & Later Development -- 6. The Merritt Parkway's Long Shadow.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

Bruce Radde traces the history of Connecticut's Merritt Parkway from the proposals for its construction and design in the early 1920s to its triumphant completion in 1940.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0300053797
9780300053791
0300068778
9780300068771

Subject:

Express highways Connecticut History.
Highway engineering Connecticut History.
Roads Connecticut History.
Technique routière Connecticut Histoire.
Highway engineering
Express highways
Roads
Autosnelwegen.
Ruimtelijke ordening.
Landschapsarchitectuur.
Autoroutes Connecticut (États-Unis) 20e siècle.
Merritt Parkway (Conn.)
Connecticut
Connecticut Merritt Parkway
Roads History

Form/genre:

History
Books.
Illustrated works.

Added entries:

John DePol Collection (Library of Congress)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 117687
Call No.: ID TE25.M45 R33; ID:95-B1428
Status: Available

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